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| Title: | | Two tales on resale  |
| Authors: | | Höffler, Felix Schmidt, Klaus M. |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2007,16 |
| Abstract: | | In some markets vertically integrated firms sell directly to final customers but also to independent downstream firms with whom they then compete on the downstream market. It is often argued that resellers intensify competition and benefit consumers, in particular when wholesale prices are regulated. However, we show that (i) resale may increase prices and make consumers worse off and that (ii) standard retail minus X regulation may increase prices and harm consumers. Our analysis suggests that this is more likely if the number of integrated firms is small, the degree of product differentiation is low, and/or if competition is spatial. |
| Subjects: | | Resale regulation wholesale spatial product differentiation non-spatial product |
| JEL: | | D43 L11 L42 L51 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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