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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011842004
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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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489113
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012015849
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011207
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023495
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Capacity restriction by retailers
Faulí-Oller, Ramón - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2008
A monopolist retailer facing two suppliers producing two symmetric and independent goods improves its bargaining position by commiting to sell only one good. We analyze if this advantage extends to the case where there are two undierentiated retailers competing in the same market. With linear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731374
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Mergers of retailers with limited selling capacity
Faulí-Oller, Ramón - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2009
We consider two (symmetric) upstream firms producing independent goods that sell to consumers through symmetric retailers. The distinguishing feature of retailers is that they have a selling capacity, in the sense, that there is an upper limit in the total units of the two goods they can sell....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602630
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951748
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530227
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491438