the decentralized coordination mechanism inherent in all competitive markets. Coordinating supply and demand is not the … distinguishable types. This contribution explains absolute market power (single-firm monopoly and dominance), collective market power … market entries to discipline the behavior of powerful incumbents on monopoly or dominance markets. Recently, contestability …

We construct a two-period model of the supply chain's openness in a durable goods market by introducing two marketing … downstream monopolist choose one of the trading modes: (i) a two-period exclusive supply chain or (ii) an open supply chain … monopolist always chooses the open supply chain in the leasing mode, although the exclusive supply chain is attainable in the …

We explore the supply chain problem of a downstream durable goods monopolist, who chooses one of the following trading … modes: an exclusive supply chain with an incumbent supplier or an open supply chain, allowing the monopolist to trade with a …’ joint profits. In equilibrium, the downstream monopolist chooses the exclusive supply chain to escape further price …

level of durability; 2) a monopoly or explicit cartel is welfare superior to an implicit cartel; 3) welfare is non …