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... Finally, the dampening e¤ect of intense downstream competition (i.e., Bertrand instead of Cournot competition) on an integrated …rm’s incentive to foreclose a downstream rival, discussed in section 4.2, parallels an ... See full document

... between vertical integration and three de- terminants: product differentiation, market size and investment ...if product differentiation becomes greater, the vertical ... See full document

... after vertical integration intermediate products prices go up, making the costs of non-integrated downstream independent enterprises increase, and the market exclusion comes into ...the product ... See full document

... manufacturer's product are reduced below the desired level by an additional markup at the retail level if retailers have market ...case, vertical integration, which results in the manufacturing price ... See full document

... that vertical integration and diversification are important factors of the development of market structure, they are not the only ...concentration), product differentiation, size of entry ... See full document

... about product line policies: it provides the opportunity to revisit the existing competition among products sold by the ex-ante ...many product variants, but also which product variants should be ... See full document

... for two manufacturers producing differentiated products with opportunity to reduce their indi- vidual unit cost. As cost reduction becomes less costly, selling through independent retailers is more profitable. Gupta ... See full document

... In the model on commodity bundling I pointed out that the correlation of reser- vation prices is the crucial variable in determining profits not only in monopoly but in duopoly as well, yet, with opposite consequences. ... See full document

... on vertical integration we extend the competitive framework developed by MacDonald and Slivinski ...of vertical scope to exist and we study when outsourcing occurs in the ...the vertical ... See full document

... produce product with relatively low prices and thus enjoy the competitive edge through low cost, demands for social factor and environmental standards also seemed in organization’s ... See full document

... firm-specific differentiation (L) (relative to vertical differentiation ( θ ) the incumbent’s (firm 1) optimal strategy is to specialise in one of the quality variants and allow entry to occur in the ... See full document

... the vertical differentiation level increases, but the average quality ...the vertical differentiation is decreasing in the income ...within-firm vertical differentiation is that ... See full document

... more vertical integration, can thus be interpreted as supporting a multitasking view of incentive provision for ...particular, vertical integration, which corresponds to lower–powered ... See full document

... The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 presents the macroeconomic part of the model and derives the dynamic equation for aggregate productivity. Section 3.1 derives the equilibrium investments in scale and ... See full document

... of integration, and that is one of the reasons why we designed a quality concept based on growth, differentiation and their ...growth, differentiation and their ... See full document

... of integration, differentiation and product are introduced and utilized to reduce the solution of optimal control problems with time-varying singular systems to the solution of algebraic equations ... See full document

... Broad Spectrum Diversification BSD: expansion other than vertical integration into a different two digit industry" Stopford and Wells 1972 was based on a product count measures of divers[r] ... See full document

... Holmstrom and Tirole (1991) and Helper and Levine (1992) are also related to our paper. Holmstrom and Tirole examine transfer pricing problem in the context of organizational choice. In a decentralized firm the units are ... See full document

... in vertical integration within the treat- ment and control groups are indistinguishable, indicating that the control group represent a valid ...and product market competition ... See full document

... a vertical differentiation model would be more suitable than one for horizontal differentiation for the analysis of emerging industries and those producing luxury ...simplified vertical ... See full document