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Single monopoly profits, vertical mergers, and downstream entry deterrence
Hunold, Matthias; Schad, Jannika Leonie - 2021
We review the Chicago school's single monopoly profit theory whereby an upstream monopolist cannot increase its profits through vertical integration as it has sufficient market power anyways. In our model the dominant supplier has full bargaining power and uses observable two-part tariffs. We...
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Strategic microscheduling of movies
Dürr, Niklas S.; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - 2017
We investigate how competition in product niches affects the ultimate timing of product release for experience goods using data on motion pictures in the United States. We identify product niches that movies occupy along three different product dimensions: common actor, common director, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716018
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Strategic microscheduling of movies
Dürr, Niklas S.; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - 2018 - This version: February 2018
We investigate how competition in product niches affects the ultimate timing of product release for experience goods using data on motion pictures in the United States. We identify product niches that movies occupy along three different product dimensions: common actor, common director, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876630
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Exclusive Dealing as a Barrier to Entry? Evidence from Automobiles
Nurski, Laura - 2012
Exclusive dealing contracts between manufacturers and retailers force new entrants to set up their own costly dealer networks to enter the market. We ask whether such contracts may act as an entry barrier, and provide an empirical analysis of the European car market. We first estimate a demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112465
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Quality Disclosure and Product Selection
Song, Tianle - 2019
If entry requires accommodation by retailers, the incumbent manufacturer may transfer profits to retailers to maintain his dominant position (Asker and Bar-Isaac 2014). This paper shows that such an incentive to transfer will induce the high quality entrants to disclose the quality of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891091
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The Identification and Measurement of Market Power and Entry Barriers in Markets Featuring 'Platform' Businesses
Downes, Larry - 2019
In response to the increasing popularity and economic impact of companies in the Internet ecosystem, the Federal Trade Commission is being implored with vocal but factually vacant calls to revisit its approach to antitrust, and in particular market power, barriers to entry and anti-competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892718
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Vertical Contracts and Entry
Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2020
We study the implications of different contractual forms in a market with an incumbent upstream monopolist and free downstream entry. We show that traditional conclusions regarding the desirability of linear contracts radically change when entry in the downstream market is endogenous rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824081
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Vertical licensing, input pricing, and entry
Bakaouka, Elpiniki; Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2017
input to an external firm, transforming the licensee into its input supplier. We find that the incumbent opts for licensing … even when licensing also transforms the licensee into one of its direct competitors in the final products market. In fact … faces, it reinforces, instead of weakens, the licensing incentives. Furthermore, the licensee's entry augments the positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597751
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Network Externalities, Complementarities, and Invitations to Enter
Economides, Nicholas - 2008
We discuss the incentive of an exclusive holder of a technology to share it with competitors in a market with network externalities. We assume that high expected sales increase the willingness to pay for the good. This is named the "network effect". At a stable fulfilled expectations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014039256
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Network Externalities, Complementarities, and Invitations to Enter
Economides, Nicholas - 2014
We discuss the incentive of an exclusive holder of a technology to share it with competitors in a market with network externalities. We assume that high expected sales increase the willingness to pay for the good. This is named the "network effect". At a stable fulfilled expectations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014041320