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Non-horizontal mergers with investments into compatibility

Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen; Padilla, Atilano Jorge - 2019

We set up a model to analyze the effects of mergers between sellers of complementary components where firms invest in … compatibility and can engage in bundling. We consider the impact of merger on prices, investment and consumer surplus. We also …

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The Strategic Interplay between Bundling and Merging in Complementary Markets

Mantovani, Andrea - 2012

In this paper, two pairs of complementors have to decide whether to merge and eventually bundle their products. Depending on the degree of competitive pressure in the market, either both pairs decide to merge (with or without bundling), or only one pair merges and bundles, while rivals remain...

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Equilibrium mergers in a composite good industry with efficiencies

Pardo-Garcia, Cristina; Sempere-Monerris, José Jorge - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 6 (2015) 1, pp. 101-127

good. Focusing only on strategic reasons, vertical mergers arise at equilibrium only when composite goods are very … differentiated or when the number of producers is large while horizontal mergers arise otherwise. When efficiencies are considered … demanding when dealing with horizontal mergers in composite goods industries. …

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The strategic interplay between bundling and merging in complementary markets

Mantovani, Andrea; Vandekerckhove, Jan - 2012

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One-Way Essential Complements

Chen, M. Keith - 2006

While competition between firms producing substitutes is well understood, less is known about rivalry between complementors. We study the interaction between firms in markets with one-way essential complements. One good is essential to the use of the other but not vice versa, as arises with an...

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TV Wars: Exclusive Content and Platform Competition in Pay TV

Weeds, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The paper examines incentives for exclusive distribution of premium television content such as live sports and Hollywood movies. Static analysis shows that a pay TV operator with premium content always chooses to supply its retail rival, using per-subscriber fees to soften competition....

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Bundling and competition for slots: On the portfolio effects of bundling

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

mergers. Finally, we derive clear-cut policy implications. …

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The Elusive Antitrust Standard on Bundling in Europe and in the United States at the Aftermath of the Microsoft Cases

Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - NET Institute - 2007

(predatory price standard or foreclosure standard) and the implementation of the distinct product and coercion test for tying … anticompetitive foreclosure. It seems to us that in Europe, consumer detriment is found easily and it is not always a requirement for …

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Do Firms' Product Lines Include Too Many Varieties, and Do Shops Open Too Many Days?

Klemperer, Paul; Padilla, Atilano Jorge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper attempts to give a meaning to the empty concept of subsidiarity. It examines various kinds of government activity with respect to the optimal layer of government in Europe at which these activities should be performed. The paper criticizes Europe's industrial policies and its...

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Tying and entry deterrence in vertically differentiated markets

Kovac, Eugen - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2005

This paper analyzes tying and bundling as an entry deterrence tool. It shows that a multi-product firm can defend its monopoly position in one market via tying even when it does not have market power in another market. This is shown on a model with two complementary goods, each of which is...

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