There are two “Big Tech” bills currently being considered by Congress (the American Innovation and Choice Online Act and the Open App Markets Act) whose purpose is to limit competitively harmful “self-preferencing” practices by dominant tech platforms. A natural question regarding these...

This paper shows that an upstream monopolist that sells to competing downstream firms can profitably use exclusive contracts to deter entry even where scale economies are absent. The incumbent monopolist can often place each downstream firm in a prisoner's dilemma by offering downstream firms a...

Under plausible circumstances, a monopolist in one market can use its control of prices in that market to force competing downstream buyers to sign tying contracts that will lever its monopoly into another market. Specifically, the monopolist of the tying good can place each downstream buyer in...