Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174332 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 36-2017
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics, Marburg
Abstract: 
This article provides a theoretical model analyzing wholesale pricing tariffs set by a monopolistic manufacturer for its branded product that is sold to final customers by a monopolistic retailer. The bargaining power of the downstream retailer is strengthened by offering also a vertically differentiated private label product whose production costs are known only incompletely to the upstream manufacturer. The model shows that the manufacturer can avoid double marginalization and implement the full information outcome by combining a quantity discount with a market-share discount where only a retailer with a strong private label retroactively receives an allowance. Under these circumstances it is unprofitable for the manufacturer to impose exclusive dealing on the retailer.
Subjects: 
Branded Products
Incomplete Information
Market-Share Discounts
Private Label Products
Wholesale Pricing
JEL: 
D42
D82
L15
L42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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