Wholesale Price Discrimination and Parallel Imports

Mattias Ganslandt () and Keith Maskus

No 702, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: We develop a model of vertical pricing in which an original manufacturer sets wholesale prices in two markets integrated at the distributor level by parallel imports (PI). In this context we show that if competition policy requires uniform wholesale prices across locations it would push retail prices toward convergence as transportation costs fall. However, these retail prices could be higher than those induced without restrictions on prices charged to distributors. Thus, the competition policy may not be optimal for consumer welfare.

Keywords: Vertical Restraints; Parallel Imports; Market Integration; Price Discrimination; Competition Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 K21 L14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2007-04-13
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-ind, nep-law and nep-mkt
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