Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27602 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 08-119
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper aims to study geographical and multi-product linkages of markets (multiple market presence) and firm behaviour interdependence as a result of such linkages existence. In particular, it attempts to answer whether the multimarket linkages lead to more cooperative behaviour among the firms, which results in higher prices and profits, and whether the degree of collusive/cooperative behaviour varies across markets. These issues are investigated within a structural oligopoly model for differentiated products for the European automobile market on the basis of the aggregate product-level data for 1970-1999. The results of the study reveal weak (quantitative) effect of multimarket contact on market conduct/pricing in the European car market as well as provide some evidence on the redistribution of the market power from the more collusive to the more competitive markets due to multimarket contact.
Subjects: 
multimarket contact
collusion
automobile industry
test for non-nested hypothesis
menu test
structural oligopoly models
JEL: 
L25
L62
L13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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