Search Results - subject_exact:"Resale price maintenance"

When wholesale prices fall short : the RPM problem revisited

Imenkamp, Nico; Wey, Christian - 2026

We analyze resale price maintenance (RPM) in a successive monopoly framework. When the retailer faces decreasing average costs or shelf-space opportunity costs while the manufacturer's marginal costs increase, linear pricing forces wholesale prices below marginal cost, potentially causing trade...

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Evaluation of a partial ban of Rx-rebates in Germany using difference-in-differences

Gail, Maximilian M.; Goetz, Georg; Herold, Daniel; … - 2025

In December 2020, Germany implemented a policy restricting online pharmacies from offering rebates on prescription drugs to members of the statutory health insurance. This policy change created a natural experiment, allowing us to analyze its impact on the pharmaceutical market using...

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Cultural exception? : the impact of price regulation on prices and variety in the market for books

Genakos, Christos; Pagliero, Mario; Sabatino, Lorien; … - 2025

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Cultural exception? : the impact of price regulation on prices and variety in the market for books

Genakos, Christos; Pagliero, Mario; Sabatino, Lorien; … - 2025

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Cultural exception? : the impact of price regulation on prices and variety in the market for books

Genakos, Christos; Pagliero, Mario; Sabatino, Lorien; … - 2025

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Minimum resale price maintenance in the absence of point-of-sale service, agency or free-rider problems

Baye, Michale R.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; Vries, Casper G. de - 2025

We show that MRPM can increase manufacturer profits and total output even in the absence of traditional justifications based on point-of-sale services, retailer effort, or free-riding. The key insight is that MRPM mitigates channel conflict by altering how retailers balance extracting surplus...

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Minimum resale price maintenance in the absence of point-of-sale service, agency or free-rider problems

Baye, Michael R.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; Vries, Casper G. de - 2025

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Empirical effects of resale price maintenance : evidence from fixed book price policies in Europe

Williams, Rhys - 2024

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Price discrimination under minimum advertised price restriction

Asmat, Danial; Kramer, Jake; Yang, Chenyu - 2026

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When wholesale prices fall short: The RPM problem revisited

Imenkamp, Nico; Wey, Christian - 2026

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Retail price parity as a channel-coordination mechanism in dual distribution

Bisceglia, Michele; Israel, Mark; Piccolo, Salvatore; … - 2026

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Resale price maintenance in a successive monopoly model

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2024

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Resale price maintenance in a successive monopoly model

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2023

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Manufacturer collusion and resale price maintenance

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2024

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Manufacturer collusion and resale price maintenance

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2023

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Evaluation of a partial ban of Rx-rebates in Germany using difference-in-differences

Gail, Maximilian M.; Goetz, Georg; Herold, Daniel; … - 2025

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Minimum Resale Price Maintenance in the Absence of Point-of-Sale Service, Agency or Free-Rider Problems

Baye, Michale R.; Kovenock, Dan J.; Casper G, de Vries - 2025

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The manufacturer's resale strategy for trade-ins

Hu, Shu; Zhu, Stuart X.; Fu, Ke - 2025

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Resale price maintenance and consumer search

Rhodes, Andrew; Yang, Yang - 2025

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Wheat value chains and vertical price transmission in South Africa : a nonlinear autoregressive diagnostic lag bound approach

Swapi, Asemahle; Akande, Joseph Olorunfemi; Hosu, … - 2024

This study examined the vertical transmission of wheat price among the main value chain, looking at the pricing behaviour of certain role players in the wheat production/supply and the distribution of bread, which is a major staple food consumed in South Africa. A nonlinear autoregressive...

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Boken og havresekken

Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle - 2024

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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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Multi-Product Pricing and Minimum Resale Price Maintenance

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2021

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The impact of the agency model on e-book prices : evidence from the UK

Gail, Maximilian Maurice; Klotz, Phil-Adrian - 2021

This paper empirically analyzes the effect of the widely used agency model on the retail prices of e-books in United Kingdom. Using a unique cross-sectional data set of e-book prices for a large sample of book titles across all major publishing houses, we exploit cross-genre and cross-publisher...

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Incapacitating the competition : e impact of vertical restraints on technology adoption

Grigolon, Laura; Sovinsky, Michelle - 2026

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Post- Leegin resale price maintenance: evidence from US beer industry

Ahmed, M. Iqbal; Faheem, Adeel; Fidia Farah, Quazi - 2026

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Vertical price restraints and free entry under asymmetric information

Bonazzi, Leda Maria; Fiocco, Raffaele; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2020

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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 manufacturer and retailer competition. Because retailers have an effective outside option to each manufacturer’s contract, the manufacturers can only ensure contract acceptance by...

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Manufacturer cartels 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 manufacturer and retailer competition. Because retailers have an effective outside option to each manufacturer's contract, the manufacturers can only ensure contract acceptance by...

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Manufacturer Cartels and Resale Price Maintenance

Hunold, Matthias - 2020

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Resale price maintenance in a successive monopoly model

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2023

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Manufacturer collusion and resale price maintenance

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2023

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Price and quantity competition under vertical pricing

Basak, Debasmita - 2023

We consider a vertically related market where one quantity-setting and another price-setting downstream firm negotiate the terms of a two-part tariff contract with an upstream input supplier. In contrast to the traditional belief, we show that the price-setting firm produces a higher output and...

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Buchpreisbindungsgesetz : die Preisbindung des Buchhandels : Kommentar

Franzen, Hans; Wallenfels, Dieter; Russ, Christian - 2025 - 8., überarbeitete Auflage

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Buchpreisbindungsgesetz : die Preisbindung des Buchhandels : Kommentar

Franzen, Hans; Wallenfels, Dieter; Russ, Christian - 2018 - 7., überarbeitete Auflage

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Object and effects tests in resale price maintenance cases in China

Ju, Heng; Li, Meitong - 2025

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Competitive effects of resale price maintenance through inventory: Evidence from publishing industry

Kawaguchi, Kohei; Qiu, Yin Jia; Zhang, Yi - 2022

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The Impact of Remembered Air Pollution on House Resale Prices

Deng, Hui; Yang, Zan - 2022

We investigate the impact of memory on consumption by linking random disturbances due to variations in air pollution during house viewings with the final house resale transaction price. We use tracked air pollution on the day of viewing and a cross-sectional model with community fixed effects to...

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Platform pricing strategies when consumers web/showroom

Navarra, Federico - 2022

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Analyzing the Anti-Competitive Assumption behind Resale Price Maintenance : Indian Experience & International Lessons

Malhotra, Chavi; Dembi, Divyanshu; Pahwa, Ravi - 2022

Resale price maintenance (hereinafter RPM) is a vertical price fixing mechanism wherein the producer/manufactures enter into an agreement with the retailers/distributors for setting a particular price above or below which the product/service in the market cannot be traded in. It is a price...

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Price Determination and Vertical Restraints : Antitrust & IP Interface

Chauhan, Aditya - 2022

The paper analyses the conundrum of Antitrust and IP laws in Indian context. It also analyses the approach of the CCI 2 to address the conundrum through various cases. The paper also reckons upon the transitions of the CCI’s approach in Price Determination for Antitrust Scrutiny. The paper...

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Competitive effects of resale price maintenance through inventory : evidence from publishing industry

Kawaguchi, Kohei; Qiu, Yin Jia; Zhang, Yi - 2022

This paper examines the competitive effects of resale price maintenance (RPM) through inventory decisions under demand uncertainty. We focus on the Japanese publishing industry where RPM is allowed. We develop and estimate a model of RPM in which price and inventory are determined before demand...

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Free Riding and Sales Strategies for the Internet

Carlton, Dennis W.; Chevalier, Judith A. - 2022

We examine manufacturers' decisions of whether and how to offer their products for sale over the internet. Manufacturers that rely on promotion of their products by brick and mortar retailers must consider the possibility that internet retailers can free ride off of that promotional effort. This...

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Free Riding and Sales Strategies for the Internet

Carlton, Dennis W. - 2001

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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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Modernizing competition policy and law : the impact of marketing developments on the legal treatment of price maintenance in the United States, the European Union, and China

Krotz, Riley T.; Gundlach, Gregory T.; Moss, Diana L. - 2022

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Secret contracting in multilateral relations

Rey, Patrick; Vergé, Thibaud - 2017

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Preisbindung apothekenpflichtiger Arzneimittel in Deutschland : die EuGH-Rechtsprechung zu DocMorris : Analyse der Blockade eines frei(er)en Wettbewerbs

Huppertz, Paulina-Élissa - 2024

Wie können Kunden, Krankenkassen und Apotheken vom Ende der Arzneimittelfestpreise profitieren?Die Autorin wirft, ausgehend von einer Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs über die Preisbindung verschreibungspflichtiger Arzneimittel aus dem Jahr 2016, einen aktuellen Blick auf den...

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Online travel agencies, minimum advertized prices and online intermediation services: some lessons from the Swedish Finnair case

Calcagno, Claudio - 2024

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Multi-Product Pricing and Minimum Resale Price Maintenance

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Wey, Christian - 2021

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Manufacturer carterls and resale price maintenance

Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2021

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The Impact of the Agency Model on E-book Prices: Evidence from the UK

Gail, Maximilian Maurice; Klotz, Phil-Adrian - 2021

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Resale Price Maintenance in the EU - A Call for Reassessment

Wong, Lilien - 2021

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Fixed price versus spot price contracts : a study in risk allocation

Polinsky, Alan Mitchell - 1987

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Fixed price versus spot price contracts : a study in risk allocation

Polinsky, Alan Mitchell - 1986

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Fixed Price Versus Spot Price Contracts : a Study in Risk Allocation

Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 2021

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Fixed Price Versus Spot Price Contracts : A Study in Risk Allocation

Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 1986

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Resale Price Maintenance and Restrictions on Dominant Firm and Industry-Wide Adoption

Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg Eric - 2021

This paper examines the use of market-share thresholds (safe harbors) in evaluating whether a given vertical practice should be challenged. Such thresholds are typically found in vertical restraints guidelines (e.g., the 2000 Guidelines for the European Commission and the 1985 Guidelines for the...

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Resale Price Maintenance and Restrictions on Dominant Firm and Industry-Wide Adoption

Foros, Øystein - 2010

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The Economics of Books

van der Ploeg, Rick; van Ours, Jan C.; Canoy, M. F. M. - 2021

The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...

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A Comparison Between Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price and Minimum Advertised Price in a Distribution Channel and the Effect of Competition

Sacco, Armando; Giovanni, Pietro De - 2021

This paper investigates two coordination mechanisms in a simple distribution channel: 1) the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) and 2) the minimum advertised price (MAP). With a MSRP, the retailer can engage in a price discount policy to maintain control of the selling price. With a...

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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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Beyond the Dogma of the Fixed Book Price Agreement

van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021

After describing the essential features of the book market, a welfare analysis of the fixed book price agreement is given. Allowance is made for the opportunity cost of reading. Theoretically, the agreement pushes up book prices and depresses book sales. However, more titles will be published,...

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