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Vertical Integration, Exclusive Dealing, and Ex Post Cartelization

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Yongmin Chen () (University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics)
Michael H. Riordan () (Columbia University - Columbia Business School)

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A vertically integrated firm has the incentive and ability to use exclusive contracts to foreclose an equally efficient upstream competitor and to effect a cartelization of the downstream industry. Its ability to do so may be limited when downstream firms are heterogeneous and supply contracts are not contingent on uncertain market conditions. The extent of cartelization depends on the degree of downstream market concentration and on the degree to which downstream competition is localized.

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Paper provided by Columbia University, Department of Economics in its series Discussion Papers with number 0203-13.

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Date of creation: 2003
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