countervailing power, via an increase in downstream concentration, depends on the competition regime between airlines and whether … airports can price discriminate: airline concentration reduces the landing fee when downstream competition is in quantities …, but if downstream competition is in prices only where airports cannot discriminate. Furthermore, only in a specific case …

We revisit the relationships between competition and market outcomes in a Stackelberg oligopoly. Consider a … TV industry, despite being faced with severe competition from foreign entrants. We also show that the effects of … competition on producer surplus, consumer surplus, and social welfare are ambiguous …

competition model for a homogeneous good. It is shown that firms can exploit this weakness and charge prices above the competitive …

price contracts and quantity contracts might coexist. Welfare under price competition might be lower than under quantity … competition. Finally, the profit ranking of the firms might be different from that of a private duopoly or a mixed duopoly with a …

surplus compared to duopoly competition between platforms that charge positive fees on content providers. We also discuss the …

increases total surplus compared to duopoly competition between platforms that charge positive fees on content providers. We …

We examine how revenue-sharing and profit-sharing stakes affect price competition intensity under duopoly. Our analysis … builds on the price competition framework introduced by Varian (1980) and accounts for fundamental asymmetries in terms of … always has a stronger competition-dampening effect (leads to higher prices) than a profit-sharing stake, and explain how the …