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Produktbündel sind im Wirtschaftsleben allgegenwärtig. Sie können zum einen erhebliche Vorteile für Anbieter und Kunden aufweisen, zum anderen können sie aber auch als Instrument zur Behinderung des Wettbewerbs eingesetzt werden. Die ökonomische und rechtliche Würdigung ist daher sehr...
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Das DIW Berlin veranstaltete am 26. Oktober dieses Jahres den 2. Wissenschaftlichen Roundtable "Informationsgesellschaft und Wettbewerb", der die Praxistauglichkeit des "More Economic Approach" in der europäischen Wettbewerbspolitik zum Gegenstand hatte. Mit dem "More Economic Approach" gewinnt...
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Considering a vertical structure with perfectly competitive upstream firms that deliver a homogenous good to a differentiated retail duopoly, we show that upstream fixed costs may help to monopolize the downstream market. We find that downstream prices increase in upstream firms'fixed costs when...
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We explore the strategic role of private quality standards in food supply chains. Considering two symmetric retailers that are exclusively supplied by a finite number of producers and endogenizing the suppliers' delivery choice, we show that there exist two asymmetric equilibria in the...
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Considering a vertical structure with perfectly competitive upstream firms that deliver a homogenous good to a differentiated retail duopoly, we show that upstream fixed costs may help to monopolize the downstream market. We find that downstream prices increase in upstream firms' fixed costs...
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We analyze how consumer preferences for one-stop shopping affect the bargaining relationship between a retailer and its suppliers. One-stop shopping preferences create demand complementarities among otherwise independent products which lead to two opposing effects on upstream merger incentives:...
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This paper highlights the strategic role retailers private quality standards play in food supply chains. Considering two symmetric downstream firms that are exclusively supplied by a finite number of upstream firms and letting the upstream firms decide which retailer to supply, we show that...
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This paper explores how the initial farm size structure affects the exit decision of farms inducing free land capacities, and the allocation of the newly available land resources to the remaining farms in a particular region. We model an agricultural market where large and small firms first...
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Als wesentlicher Intermediär zwischen Konsumgüterindustrie und Verbrauchern entscheidet der Einzelhandel mit seiner Sortimentsgestaltung über den Marktzugang von Konsumgütern. Damit verfügt der Einzelhandel über eine Flaschenhalsfunktion, die ihm zentrale Marktmacht gegenüber seinen...
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