Contracts as a barrier to entry in markets with non-pivotal buyers

Arbeitspapier

Considering markets with non-pivotal buyers we analyze the anti-competitive effects of breakup fees used by an incumbent facing a more efficient entrant in the future. Buyers differ in their intrinsic switching costs. Breakup fees are profitably used to foreclose entry, regardless of the entrant's efficiency advantage or level of switching costs. Banning breakup fees is beneficial to consumers and enhances the total welfare unless the entrant's efficiency is close to the incumbent's. Inefficient foreclosure arises not because of rent shifting from the entrant, but because the incumbent uses the long-term contract to manipulate consumers' expected surplus from not signing it.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ESMT Working Paper ; No. 15-02 (R1)

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Management
• Thema: Wechselverhalten ; Zahlungsbereitschaftsanalyse ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bedre-Defolie, Özlem ; Biglaiser, Gary
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)
• (wo): Berlin
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/149865
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ