Buyer Group and Buyer Power When Sellers Compete
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- Jeon, Doh-Shin & Menicucci, Domenico, 2017. "Buyer Group and Buyer Power When Sellers Compete," CEPR Discussion Papers 12547, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
Buyer Group; Buyer Power; Competition in Non-linear Tariffs; Discriminatory Offers; Common Agency;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
- K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
- L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
- L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2014-12-29 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-CTA-2014-12-29 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-LAW-2014-12-29 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2014-12-29 (Microeconomics)
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