Unraveling the spreading pattern of collusively effectivecompetition clauses

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dc.contributor.authorTrost, Michaelde
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-08T09:02:08Z
dc.date.available2024-04-08T09:02:08Z
dc.date.created2022-03-29
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractMeanwhile, the Industrial Organization literature gives several reasons why retailers adopt competition clauses (CCs) such as price matching or price beating guarantees. The motivations underlying the CCs might affect their forms and spread. In this paper, we unravel the spreading pattern of CCs in markets where they are used as a device to facilitate tacit collusion. It turns out that in homogeneous markets with capacity-constrained retailers, the retailers with the largest capacities are most inclined to adopt CCs. Our finding is in line with results of earlier studies on the formation of price leadership, which suggest that the retailers with the largest capacities take on the leadership position. On the other side, we find that in some market instances, retailers have to resort to CCs of non-conventional forms (i.e., of forms uncommon in real commercial life) to induce the most robust collusion. However, it turns out that this peculiar finding can be resolved for markets with additional characteristics. For example, if there exist market dominant retailers or the residual market demand is specified by efficient rationing, the most resilient collusion can also be enforced by CCs of conventional forms.en
dc.identifier.swb1796837954
dc.identifier.urihttps://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6708
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-20152
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences; 2022,01
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dc.rights.urihttp://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php
dc.subject.ddc330
dc.subject.gndWettbewerbsverhaltende
dc.titleUnraveling the spreading pattern of collusively effectivecompetition clausesde
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dc.type.diniWorkingPaperde
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local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlaceUniversität Hohenheimde
local.export.bibtex@techreport{Trost2022, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6708}, author = {Trost, Michael}, title = {Unraveling the spreading pattern of collusively effectivecompetition clauses}, year = {2022}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthorTrost, Michael
local.export.bibtexKeyTrost2022
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local.faculty.number3de
local.institute.number520de
local.opus.number2015
local.series.issueNumber2022,01
local.series.titleHohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences
local.universityUniversität Hohenheimde
local.university.facultyFaculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciencesen
local.university.facultyFakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftende
local.university.instituteInstitute for Economicsen
local.university.instituteInstitut für Volkswirtschaftslehrede

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