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A Buyer Power Theory of Exclusive Dealing and Exclusionary Bundling
Social Science Research Network, 2023 We develop a unified theory of exclusive dealing and exclusionary bundling. In a framework with two competing manufacturers that supply their product(s) through a monopolist retailer, we show that buyer power restores the profitability of such practices ...
C. Chambolle, H. Molina
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Vertical Agreements and User Access
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021 Platforms acting as sales channels for producers often charge users for access via a subscription fee or a markup on hardware. We compare two common forms of vertical pricing agreement that platforms use with sellers: per unit and proportional fees.
Germain Gaudin, Alexander White
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Hub and Spoke Cartels: Theory and Evidence from the Grocery Industry
Social Science Research Network, 2021 Numerous recently uncovered cartels operated along the supply chain, with firms at one end facilitating collusion at the other—hub-and-spoke arrangements.
R. Clark +2 more
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American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2020 Since Telser (1960), there is a well-established argument that a competitive market will not provide service due to freeriding. We show that with search frictions, the market may well provide service if the cost of doing so is not too large.
M. Janssen, T. Ke
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Revue d' Economie politique, 2019 This article conducts a detailed analysis of the concept of economic dependence and exploitative abuse based on how their treatment in competition law and economics and their enforcement in European case law have evolved.
P. Bougette, Oliver Budzinski, F. Marty
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Complex Pricing and Consumer-Side Attention
Social Science Research Network, 2020 This paper analyzes a market in which two horizontally differentiated firms compete by setting menus of two-part tariffs, and in which some consumers are not informed about the linear per-unit price component.
C. Fischer +2 more
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Platform Price Parity Clauses and Segmentation
Social Science Research Network, 2019 We investigate how the adoption of price parity clauses (PPCs) by established platforms affects the listing decisions of suppliers. PPCs have been widely adopted by online travel agencies (OTAs) to force client hotels not to charge lower prices in ...
Joan Calzada, Ester Manna, A. Mantovani
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Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation
, 2015 Benjamin Edelman, Julian Wright
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Supplier Fixed costs and Retail Market Monopolization
, 2014 S. Caprice +2 more
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Does Vertical Integration Decrease Prices? Evidence from the Paramount Antitrust Case of 1948
, 2015 Ricard Gil
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