Politique tarifaire locale ou nationale: Quel impact pour le contrôle des concentrations dans le secteur de la distribution ?

Marie-Laure Allain, Claire Chambolle () and Stéphane Turolla

No 15-09, Working Papers SMART from INRAE UMR SMART

Abstract: [texte en français] The food retail sector is characterized by a competition among multi-market retailers that is highly localized. Multi-store retailers either price discriminate spatially or adopt a uniform pricing strategy among local markets. We analyze theoretically the effects of both pricing strategies (local or uniform) on merger control. We show that when one retailer adopts uniform pricing across stores, the anticompetitive effect of the merger on consumer welfare spreads on markets non directly affected by the merger. In addition, the effect of the merger on directly affected markets is enhanced when these markets are sufficiently more competitive than markets non directly affected by the merger. These results lead to reconsiderate the definition of relevant markets in merger control when one multi-market retailer uses local pricing.

Keywords: mergers; retail grocery sector; pricing; competition policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L13 L42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2015
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Journal Article: Politique tarifaire locale ou nationale: quel impact pour le contrôle des concentrations dans le secteur de la distribution ? (2016)
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