On the equivalence of resale price maintenance and quantity restrictions
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The economic equivalence of vertical restraints was analyzed in terms of the price policies involving resale price maintenance (RPM) and quantity rationing (QR). Many manufacturers chose RPM over QR although the former involved higher monitoring costs than the latter. Minimum RPM was perceived to be a vertical restrain since it increases the difference between the price a retailer received and the wholesale price paid. It was revealed that minimum RPM and QR were only equivalent in the event that the margin between the retailer's cost and the price floor was adequate.
Publication Name: International Journal of Industrial Organization
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0167-7187
Year: 1999
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Exchange rate pass-through in two-period duopoly
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Perverse temporary exchange rate pass-through fluctuations can occur regardless of how prices are set or the level of capital mobility. Because of complementary demands, duopolists are not under pressure to operate each period in the elastic period of their demand functions.
Publication Name: International Journal of Industrial Organization
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0167-7187
Year: 1996
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Optimal symmetric punishments in a Bertrand differentiated products duopoly
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Product differentiation can relieve inter-corporate competition, prevent price wars and facilitate collusive pricing. In price wars, negative prices lead to collusion; positive prices increase length and intensity of the price wars.
Publication Name: International Journal of Industrial Organization
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0167-7187
Year: 1996
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