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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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Bridging the gap between horizontal and vertical merger simulation : modifications and extensions of PCAID
Bush, C. Anthony - 2014
vertical mergers. Using public data from the Comcast-Time Warner-Adelphia Merger Order of the Federal Communications Commission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391562
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Secret contracting in multilateral relations
Rey, Patrick; Vergé, Thibaud - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221200
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Vertical bargaining and retail competition : what drives countervailing power?
Gaudin, Germain - 2017
This paper investigates the effects of changes in retail market concentration when input prices are negotiated. Results are derived from a model of bilateral Nash-bargaining between upstream and downstream firms which allows for general forms of demand and retail competition. Whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654786
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Non-horizontal mergers with investments into compatibility
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen; Padilla, Atilano Jorge - 2019
We set up a model to analyze the effects of mergers between sellers of complementary components where firms invest in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001659
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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
screen mergers between mobile network operators which compete with mobile virtual network operators in the downstream retail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011842004
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Complementary patents and market structure
Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2009 - This version: August 19, 2009
Many high technology goods are based on standards that require several essential patents owned by different IP holders. This gives rise to a complements and a double mark-up problem. We compare the welfare effects of two different business strategies dealing with these problems. Vertical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909249
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Competitive effects of vertical integration with downstream oligopsony and oligopoly
Loertscher, Simon; Reisinger, Markus - 2009
We analyze the competitive effects of backward vertical integration by a partially vertically integrated firm that competes with non-integrated firms both upstream and downstream. We show that vertical integration is procompetitive under fairly general conditions. It can be anticompetitive only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909264
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Strategic vertical separation
Sloev, Igor - 2009
The paper explores incentives for strategic vertical separation of firms in a framework of a simple duopoly model. Each firm chooses either to be a retailer of its own good (vertical integration) or to sell its good through an independent exclusive retailer (vertical separation). In the latter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935662
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Die Rolle der "Fertigungstiefe" als Variable in der Gegenstromplanung von Strategien
Krcal, Hans-Christian - 2007
Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt, dass die Festlegung der Fertigungstiefe in der Gegenstromplanung von Strategien kein stringentes Instrument der Unternehmensführung ist. Die Top-Down und Bottom-Up Analyse über die hierarchischen Ebenen der Unternehmens-, Wettbewerbs- und Funktionalstrategie...
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