Mergers of horizontal competitors may affect product quality as well as price. For example,potential quality effects are often considered when analyzing healthcare mergers. There exists asmall theoretical literature on the effects of mergers on quality when price and quality are chosenby a...

Conditional pricing practices are pricing strategies in which a seller conditions its prices on factors such as volume, the set of products purchased, or the buyer's share of purchases from the seller. This short primer provides a unifying overview of the economic literature that addresses these...

Recent analyses of entry deterrence strategies have required an incumbent's post-entry output or pricing strategy to be profit maximizing. However, most papers have continued to assume that either an incumbent can commit not to exit after entry or that exit is never optimal. When there are...