downstream retailers (ii) who bargain bilaterally in the presence of externalities (iii) created by competition between … bargaining models and and that how parties bargain, and over what, can almost pre-determine merger effects. This paper is …

competition, but helps firms to coordinate their quality investments more efficiently. We consider different information …

Bargaining is an important pricing mechanism, prevalent in both online and offline markets. However, there is little … empirical work documenting the costs and benefits of bargaining, primarily due to the lack of real-world bargaining data. We … leverage rich, transaction-level bargaining data from a major online platform and supplement it with primary data to quantify …

. Our findings suggest that perfect competition in both product and labour markets is widely rejected. Levels of the price …-cost margin and union bargaining power tend to be higher in some service sectors depicting however substantial heterogeneity … suggests that the Single Market integration is partial particularly relaxing the assumption of perfect competition in the …

are determined by bargaining. Vertical integration incentives are a combination of horizontal integration incentives up …. In contrast to the widely prevailing view in competition policy, vertical integration can under particular circumstances … convey more bargaining power to the merged entity than a horizontal merger to monopoly. In a bidding game for an exogenously …

contrast to the widely prevailing view in competition policy, vertical integration can under particular circumstances convey … more bargaining power to the merged entity than a horizontal merger to monopoly. The model is applied to analyze strategic … potential entrant out of the market. I provide conditions for such entry-deterring vertical mergers to occur. -- Bargaining …

which a vertically integrated firm sells its good to an independent downstream firm. Under downstream Bertrand competition …, the standard result of the desirability of two-part tariffs over linear contracts in terms of welfare may be reversed. We … downstream Cournot competition. Irrespective of the mode of downstream competition, the preferred contract type of the integrated …

We study vertical integration in the form of financial ownership as a way to improve the bargaining position of a firm … production agreements. If the bargaining sequence is pre-determined, then integrating with one of the downstream firms helps the … monopolist can choose his bargaining partner, then integration produces an additional effect: it serves as a commitment device of …