This paper examines how the option of a regulated linear input price affects vertical contracting, where a monopolistic upstream supplier sequentially offers supply contracts to two symmetric downstream firms. We find that equilibrium contracts vary with production cost and regulated price...

This paper examines how the option of a regulated linear input price affects vertical contracting, where a monopolistic upstream supplier sequentially offers supply contracts to two symmetric downstream firms. We find that equilibrium contracts vary with production cost and regulated price...

In 2003, the dominant former monopolist, which was subject to a stringent price regulation, and the new entrant in the local calls market of Korea made an agreement in which the entrant was to raise the price while the incumbent was to hand over market shares or transfer money using...