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One-stop shopping behavior, buyer power, and upstream merger incentives

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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 27
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
We analyze how consumer preferences for one-stop shopping affect the bargaining relationship between a retailer and its suppliers. One-stop shopping preferences create demand complementarities among otherwise independent products which lead to two opposing effects on upstream merger incentives: first a standard double mark-up problem and second a bargaining effect. The former creates merger incentives while the later induce suppliers to bargain separately. When buyer power becomes large enough, then suppliers stay separated which raises final good prices. Such an outcome is more likely when one-stop shopping is pronounced.
Subjects: 
One-stop shopping
buyer power
supplier merger
JEL: 
L22
L42
Q13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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