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Manufacturer carterls 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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Resale price maintenance after leegin : behavioral, evolutionary, and institutional insights for advancing the free rider thesis

Gundlach, Gregory T.; Manning, Kenneth C.; Cannon, Joseph P. - In: Journal of public policy & marketing : JPP & M ; an … 36 (2017) 2, pp. 196-212

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The impact of the agency model on e-book prices : evidence from the UK

Gail, Maximilian Maurice; Klotz, Phil-Adrian - 2021

This paper empirically analyzes the effect of the widely used agency model on the retail prices of e-books in United Kingdom. Using a unique cross-sectional data set of e-book prices for a large sample of book titles across all major publishing houses, we exploit cross-genre and cross-publisher...

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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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Resale price maintenance in a successive monopoly model

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2023

We present a model to explain why a manufacturer may impose a minimum resale price (min RPM) in a successive monopoly setting. Our argument relies on the retailer having non-contractible choice variables, which could represent the price of a substitute good and/or the effort the retailer exerts...