APPLICATIONS BARRIER TO ENTRY AND EXCLUSIVE VERTICAL CONTRACTS IN PLATFORM MARKETS.

Our study extends the empirical literature on whether vertical restraints are anticompetitive. We focus on exclusive contracting in platform markets, which feature indirect network effects and thus are susceptible to an applications barrier to entry. Exclusive contracts in vertical relationships bet...

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Publicado en:Economic Inquiry Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 435 - 453
Autores principales: PRIEGER, JAMES E., HU, WEI‐MIN
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2012
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