Partial vertical ownership and tacit collusion

A partial ownership held by a downstream rm creates a perceived cost asymmetry towards its competitors. In this article, it is shown that this will have a negative impact on the sustainability of a collusive scenario. This is a similar result to natural di¤erences in production costs of rms. However...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frazão, Miguel Trigo Franco (author)
Format: masterThesis
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/22730
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/22730