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Multi-product pricing and minimum resale price maintenance

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2021

We provide a novel explanation for why manufacturers want to enforce a minimum resale price (min RPM) on retailers. A manufacturer sells her good via a multi-product retailer to final consumers by charging a linear wholesale price. The manufacturer then maximizes her profit through min RPM...

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Manufacturer cartels and resale price maintenance

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2020

We provide a theory of how RPM facilitate upstream cartels absent any information asymmetries using a model with … manufacturers if they collude. We thus provide a novel theory of harm for resale price maintenance when manufacturers collude and … illustrate the fit of this theory in various competition policy cases. …

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Endogenous choice of minority shareholdings : effects on product market competition

Haas, Samuel de - 2019

Non-controlling minority shareholdings in rivals (NCMS) lower the sustainability of collusion under a wide variety of circumstances. Nevertheless, NCMS are sometimes deemed to facilitate collusion, in particular if the level of NCMS is exogenous. The present paper endogenizes firms' choice of...

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Anchoring, reference prices, and list price collusion

Paha, Johannes - 2019

The firms in this model set non-binding list prices before competing for buyers by non-cooperatively granting discounts. Each firm has an incentive to set a high list price if, for example, the customers anchor their willingness-to-pay on the list price. However, list price competition occurs if...

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Optimal destabilization of cartels

Auer, Ludwig von; Tu Anh Pham - 2020

A model-based derivation of an effective antitrust policy requires an economic framework that includes three actors: a cartel, a group of competing fringe firms, and a welfare maximizing antitrust authority. In existing models of cartel behavior, at least one of these actors is always missing....

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How do sanctions work? : the choice between cartel formation and tacit collusion

Andres, Maximilian; Bruttel, Lisa Verena; Friedrichsen, Jana - 2021

This paper analyzes the inner workings of cartels. To understand how sanctioning institutions prevent cartel formation we study their effect on firms' communication in a laboratory experiment. Using machine learning to organize the chat communication into topics, we find that firms are less...

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Competition concerns in multi-sided markets in mobile communication

Frank, Jonas Severin - In: Competition on the internet : [... conference titled …, (pp. 81-99). 2015

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Incumbency advantages, distribution networks and exclusivity : evidence from the European car markets

Nurski, Laura; Verboven, Frank - In: International journal of industrial organization 34 (2014), pp. 75-79

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The analysis of the process of building an integrated management system

Jurčević, Marija - In: Embracing diversity in organisations : 7th …, (pp. 381-390). 2019

An integrated management system is introduced when a company wants to achieve conformity of multiple norms with the aim of reducing the amount of paperwork, the time needed for assessment and the costs in construction and system maintenance. As the number of individual management systems has...

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A study on the price decisions of the dual-channel composite decision in B2C mode

Yang, Haoxiong; Wang, Wen - In: Journal of electronic commerce in organizations : the … 12 (2014) 4, pp. 46-56

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