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Vertical Restraints' Paradox : Justifying the Different Legal Treatment of Price and Non-Price Vertical Restraints

Paldor, Ittai - 2017

Over the past fifty years antitrust theorists and economists have advanced several pro-competitive explanations for minimum resale price maintenance [RPM]. Additionally, scholars have argued that non-price vertical restraints (such as territorial exclusivity) and RPM have similar effects on...

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Vertical Restraints to Competition in Retail Markets (Restricciones Verticales a la Competencia en el Ámbito del Retail)

Rojas Covarrubias, Nicolás - 2009

This paper (only available in Spanish) summarises the relevant literature in the field of vertical restraints in connection with retail markets and distribution, and provides some insights from Chilean practice

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Vertical Restraints (or Restrictions)

Marco Colino, Sandra - 2021

This paper explores the concept of vertical restraints or restrictions. It includes references to the competition law regimes of the European Union (EU), United States (US), and the People's Republic of China, as well as the key case law. It is part of the Concurrences' Global Dictionary of...

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Vertical Restraints in a Digital World

Evans, David S. - 2020

The subject of vertical restraints is well-trod territory in antitrust. Most of the cases, and economic literature, have focused, however, on the physical world of manufacturers and distributors. This paper considers what's new and different about the digital world that matters for the antitrust...

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Multi-product pricing and minimum resale price maintenance

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2021

We provide a novel explanation for why manufacturers want to enforce a minimum resale price (min RPM) on retailers. A manufacturer sells her good via a multi-product retailer to final consumers by charging a linear wholesale price. The manufacturer then maximizes her profit through min RPM...

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Resale price maintenance in a successive monopoly model

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2023

We present a model to explain why a manufacturer may impose a minimum resale price (min RPM) in a successive monopoly setting. Our argument relies on the retailer having non-contractible choice variables, which could represent the price of a substitute good and/or the effort the retailer exerts...

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Manufacturer collusion and resale price maintenance

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2023

We provide a novel theory of harm for resale price maintenance (RPM). In a model with two manufacturers and two …

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Price and Non-Price Restraints When Retailers are Vertically Differentiated

Spiegel, Yossi; Yehezkel, Yaron - 2000

We consider vertical restraints in the context of an intrabrand competition model in which a single manufacturer deals with two vertically differentiated retailers. We establish two main results. First, if the market cannot be vertically segmented and the cost difference between the two...

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How Resale Price Maintenance and Loss Leading affect Upstream Cartel Stability : Anatomy of a Coffee Cartel

Rickert, Dennis; Holler, Emanuel - 2022

We study empirically the price effects of upstream cartels that sell through downstream retailers to final consumers. We focus on a German coffee producer cartel that colluded under two different regimes: (i) involving wholesale prices in 2003 and (ii) with additional resale price maintenance...

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Manufacturer carterls and resale price maintenance

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2020

We provide a theory of how RPM facilitate upstream cartels absent any information asymmetries using a model with … manufacturers if they collude. We thus provide a novel theory of harm for resale price maintenance when manufacturers collude and … illustrate the fit of this theory in various competition policy cases. …

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