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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts : pricing pressure indices for mergers of vertically integrated firms

Trost, Michael - 2018

pressure indices, the GUPPI concept of Salop/Moresi (2009) and the vGUPPI concept of Moresi/Salop (2013). Such a simple … screen mergers between mobile network operators which compete with mobile virtual network operators in the downstream retail … imposed so that the iGUPPI for the upstream market allows for a decomposition into an upstream market version of the GUPPI and …

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Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? : pricing pressure indices for mergers of vertically integrated firms

Trost, Michael - In: Review of industrial organization 58 (2021) 2, pp. 235-262

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Happily ever after? - vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. media industry

Stöhr, Annika; Noskova, Victoriia; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2019

This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …

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Chapter 15 Antitrust

Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1073-1225). 2007

policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …

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Safe Harbors for Quantity Discounts and Bundling

Carlton, Dennis W.; Waldman, Michael - 2008

The courts and analysts continue to struggle to articulate safe harbors for a wide variety of common business pricing practices in which either a single product is sold at a discount if purchased in bulk or in which multiple products are bundled together at prices different from the ones that...

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Appropriate Antitrust Policy Towards Single-Firm Conduct

Carlton, Dennis W.; Heyer, Ken - 2008

In this article we distinguish between two types of single-firm conduct. The first, which we call "extraction," is conduct engaged in by the firm to capture surplus from what the firm has itself created independent of the conduct’s effect on rivals. The second, which we call "extension," is...

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Predatory exclusive dealing

Klein, Joachim; Zenger, Hans - 2009

While the previous literature on exclusive dealing has been concerned with the question of how exclusive dealing can raise static profits, this paper analyzes the question of how exclusive dealing can be used to predate in a dynamic context. It is shown that exclusive dealing may arise even if...

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Are restrictions of competition by sports associations horizontal or vertical in nature?

Budzinski, Oliver; Szymanski, Stefan - 2014

In this paper, we discuss from an economic perspective two alternative views of restrictions of competition by sports associations. The horizontal approach views such restrictions as an agreement among the participants of a sports league with the sports association merely representing an...

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Exclusive contracts and bargaining power

Kitamura, Hiroshi; Matsushima, Noriaki; Sato, Misato - 2016

This study constructs a simplest model to examine anticompetitive exclusive contracts that prevent a downstream buyer from buying input from a new up-stream supplier. Incorporating Nash bargaining into the standard one-buyer-one-supplier framework in the Chicago School critique, we show a...

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Horizontal mergers in the presence of vertical relationships

Ghosh, Arghya; Morita, Hodaka; Wang, Chengsi - 2014

We study welfare effects of horizontal mergers under a successive oligopoly model and find that downstream mergers can … conditions for a reduction in input prices and welfare-improving horizontal mergers under a general demand function. Qualitative … nature of our findings remains unchanged for upstream mergers. …

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