Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion?

We investigate the impact of vertical mergers on upstream firms' ability to collude when selling to downstream firms in a repeated game. We show that vertical mergers give rise to an outlets effect: the deviation profits of cheating unintegrated firms are reduced as these firms can no longer pr...

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Príomhchruthaitheoirí: Nocke, V, White, L
Formáid: Journal article
Teanga:English
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: American Economic Association 2007