Arbeitspapier
Reputation and foreclosure with vertical integration: Experimental evidence
Building on the seminal paper of Ordover, Saloner and Salop (1990), I study the role of reputation building on foreclosure in laboratory experiments. In one-shot interactions, upstream firms can choose to build a reputation by revealing their price history to the current upstream competitor. In particular, integrated firms can establish a reputation to foreclose the input market.an outcome that would otherwise not be tenable due to a commitment problem. I get three main results: First, withdrawal from the input market is three times more common with reputation building of the integrated firm. Second, the anticompetitive effects are much stronger when the integrated firm builds a reputation. Third, integrated firms choose to build a reputation significantly more often than non-integrated firms. Markets with reputation building of the integrated firm are ten times more often monopolized than without.
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978-3-86304-231-8
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: DICE Discussion Paper ; No. 232
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Vertical Restraints; Resale Price Maintenance; Quantity Discounts
Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
Design of Experiments: General
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Noncooperative Games
- Thema
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vertical restraints
commitment
reputation
experiments
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Möllers, Claudia
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
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Düsseldorf
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2016
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Möllers, Claudia
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Entstanden
- 2016