This study constructs a successive Cournot model to investigate the possibility that a separated upstream input supplier can solely sell the intermediate good to a separated downstream manufacturer through an exclusive contract in the presence of a vertically integrated rival. We find that the...

Die französische Wettbwerbspolitik ist in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland überwiegend kritisch beurteilt worden. Anhand einer exemplarischen Untersuchung der Erfassung der Behinderungsstrategie wird nachgewiesen, dass ein solches Urteil mittlerweile verfehlt ist. In einer Neuinterpretation der...

Der sich in den 80er Jahren beschleunigende Konzentrationsprozess insbesondere im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel hat auf den Beschaffungsmärkten des Handels den Einsatz wettbewerbsbeschränkender Praktiken durch nachfragemächtige Handelsunternehmen gefördert. Die Nachfragemacht wird in der...

This paper tests the hypothesis that a (partial) reason why cartels - collective but costly and non-binding price agreements - lead to higher prices in a Bertrand oligopoly could be because of a selection effect: decision-makers who are willing to form price agreements are more likely to be less...

A judicial review of the infringement decisions of the competition authority substantially affects the standard of evidence in competition enforcement as well as the structure of cases that the competition authority takes. Enforcement against concerted practice in Russia represents a case-study...

This paper uses auction theory to explain the unique design of the 1998-2013 posting system agreed to between Major League Baseball and the Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball League that allowed for the transfer of baseball players from Japan to the United States. It has some similarities and...

This paper studies how information control affects incentives for collusion and optimal organizational structures in principal-supervisor-agent relationships. I consider a model in which the principal designs the supervisor's signal on the productive agent's private information and the...