MERGERS OF PRODUCERS OF COMPLEMENTS: HOW AUTONOMOUS MARKETS CHANGE THE PRICE EFFECTS*

Duarte Brito and Margarida Catalão‐lopes
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Manchester School, 2010, vol. 78, issue 1, 60-75

Abstract: We analyze the price effects of mergers to monopoly between producers of complementary goods when there exists a fraction of consumers that value only one of the components. We show that customers are more likely to face a price decrease for the composite good under this setting than when such consumers do not exist.

Date: 2010
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