Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and Evidence from Computer Markets

When will a monopolist have incentives to leverage her/his market power in a primary market to foreclose competition in a complementary market by degrading compatibility/interoperability of her/his products with those of her/his rivals? We develop a framework where leveraging extracts more rents fro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Genakos, Christos, Kühn, Kai-Uwe, Van Reenen, John Michael
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122358