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Collusive effects of a monopolist's use of an intermediary to deliver to retailers

Teichmann, Isabel; Schlippenbach, Vanessa von - 2014

A manufacturer contracting secretly with several downstream competitors faces an opportunism problem, preventing it from exerting its market power. In an infinitely repeated game, the opportunism problem can be relaxed. We show that the upstream firm's market power can be restored even further...

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Vertical bargaining and retail competition : what drives countervailing power?

Gaudin, Germain - 2015

This paper investigates the effects of mergers, entry, and exit in retail markets when input prices are negotiated. Results are derived from a model of bilateral Nash-bargaining between manufacturers and retailers which allows for general forms of demand and retail competition. Whether...

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Vertical bargaining and retail competition : what drives countervailing power?

Gaudin, Germain - 2017

This paper investigates the effects of changes in retail market concentration when input prices are negotiated. Results are derived from a model of bilateral Nash-bargaining between upstream and downstream firms which allows for general forms of demand and retail competition. Whether...

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The Causality of Supply Relationships

de Jong, Gjalt; Nooteboom, Bart - 2010

This study examines the 'logic' or underlying causality of supply relationships. It develops and tests hypotheses, in a LISREL model, on detailed data for 553, 450 and 226 supply relationships in the US, Japanese and European automobile industries. The differences found between the three regions...

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Upstream monopoly and downstream information sharing

Baake, Pio; Harasser, Andreas - 2017

We analyze a vertical structure with an upstream monopoly and two downstream retailers. Demand is uncertain but each retailer receives an informative private signal about the state of the demand. We construct an incentive compatible and ex ante balanced mechanism which induces the retailers to...

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Paying not to sell

Bacchiega, Emanuele; Bonroy, Olivier; Mabrouk, Rania - 2013

In this paper we show that, in the presence of buyer and seller power, a monopolist can enter into a costly contractual relationship with a low-quality supplier with the sole intention of improving its bargaining position relative to a high-quality supplier, without ever selling the good...

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Manufacturers mergers and product variety in vertically related markets

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Sandonís, Joel - 2014

a merger among them. We show that when manufacturers distribute their products through multi-product retailers, a … manufacturers merger, although it leads to an increase in the wholesale prices, it can enhance product variety. The merger generated … products to consumers, a merger never results into more product variety. Still, both in the presence and in the absence of …

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Exclusive dealing and vertical integration in interlocking relationships

Nocke, Volker; Rey, Patrick - 2014

We develop a model of interlocking bilateral relationships between upstream firms (manufacturers)that produce differentiated goods and downstream firms (retailers) that compete imperfectly for consumers. Contract offers and acceptance decisions are private information to the contracting parties....

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Evaluating partial divestitures when vertical relations are important

Pereira, Pedro; Ribeiro, Tiago - In: Review of industrial organization : RIO 53 (2018) 2, pp. 321-345

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Exclusive dealing and vertical integration in interlocking relationships

Nocke, Volker; Rey, Patrick - In: Journal of economic theory 177 (2018), pp. 183-221

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