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Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of Its Parts? Pricing Pressure Indices for Mergers of Vertically Integrated Firms
Trost, Michael - In: Review of Industrial Organization 58 (2020) 2, pp. 235-262
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503753
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts : pricing pressure indices for mergers of vertically integrated firms
Trost, Michael - 2018
pressure indices, the GUPPI concept of Salop/Moresi (2009) and the vGUPPI concept of Moresi/Salop (2013). Such a simple … screen mergers between mobile network operators which compete with mobile virtual network operators in the downstream retail … imposed so that the iGUPPI for the upstream market allows for a decomposition into an upstream market version of the GUPPI and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011842004
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Is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? : pricing pressure indices for mergers of vertically integrated firms
Trost, Michael - In: Review of industrial organization 58 (2021) 2, pp. 235-262
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489113
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Mergers of retailers with limited selling capacity
Faulí-Oller, Ramón - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2009
We consider two (symmetric) upstream firms producing independent goods that sell to consumers through symmetric retailers. The distinguishing feature of retailers is that they have a selling capacity, in the sense, that there is an upper limit in the total units of the two goods they can sell....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602630
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Happily ever after? Vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. media industry
Stöhr, Annika; Noskova, Victoriia; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2019
This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012015849
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Capacity restriction by retailers
Faulí-Oller, Ramón - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2008
A monopolist retailer facing two suppliers producing two symmetric and independent goods improves its bargaining position by commiting to sell only one good. We analyze if this advantage extends to the case where there are two undierentiated retailers competing in the same market. With linear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731374
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Happily ever after? - vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. media industry
Stöhr, Annika; Noskova, Victoriia; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2019
This paper provides an economic analysis of recent vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. industry for audiovisual … media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine … economic effects of these types of mergers on market competition, focusing on digital media content distribution. In doing so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011207
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Chapter 15 Antitrust
Kaplow, Louis; Shapiro, Carl - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1073-1225). 2007
policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023495
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Vertical Integration as a Source of Hold-up
Allain, Marie-Laure; Rey, Patrick; Chambolle, Claire - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014
While vertical integration is traditionally seen as a solution to the hold-up problem, this paper highlights instead that it can generate hold-up problems — for rivals. We first consider a successive duopoly where competition among suppliers eliminates any risk of hold-up; downstreamfirms thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004742
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A Critical Appraisal of Remedies in the EU Microsoft Cases
Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - NET Institute - 2009
We discuss and compare the remedies in the two cases antitrust cases of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft. The first EU case alleged (i) that Microsoft illegally bundled the Windows Media Player (WMP) with Windows; and (ii) that Microsoft did not provide adequate documentation that would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621689