IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cai/ecoldc/ecop_178_0001.html

La concurrence entre distributeurs favorise-t-elle la variété des produits ?

Author

Listed:
  • Marie-Laure Allain
  • Patrick Waelbroeck

Abstract

We examine the impact of horizontal and vertical market structure on product variety. We consider a market for horizontally differentiated products where the cost of a new-product launch is fixed and spread between the manufacturing and retail industries. We show that a vertically integrated firm offers a wider variety of products than a chain of monopolies. If the launch cost is shared equally across the vertical entity or supported mainly by manufacturers, inter-vendor competition partially restores the incentives to innovate. By contrast, when most of the cost is borne by the retail sector, competition between merchants may foster even more innovation than vertical integration. In both cases, retail concentration reduces product variety.

Suggested Citation

  • Marie-Laure Allain & Patrick Waelbroeck, 2007. "La concurrence entre distributeurs favorise-t-elle la variété des produits ?," Economie & Prévision, La Documentation Française, vol. 0(2), pages 1-14.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:ecoldc:ecop_178_0001
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/load_pdf.php?ID_ARTICLE=ECOP_178_0001
    Download Restriction: free
    File URL: http://www.cairn.info/revue-economie-et-prevision-1-2007-2-page-1.htm
    Download Restriction: free
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cai:ecoldc:ecop_178_0001. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cairn.info/revue-economie-et-prevision.htm .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.