When have market participants the incentive to strike contracts that exclude potential entrants? This paper synthesizes the theory of exclusionary contracts and applies the theory to a recent antitrust case, Nielsen. We consider an incumbent facing potential entry and contracting with both...

I examine the incentives of firms to communicate entry into an industry where the incumbent writes exclusionary, long-term contracts with consumers. The entrant's information provision affects the optimal contract proposal by the incumbent and leads to communication incentives that are highly...

This paper shows that demand asymmetries between a dominant input supplier and a smaller rival allow the dominant supplier to use exclusive contracts to sell its input at the monopoly price, even though the small rival remains in the market, offers its input at marginal cost, and is more...