Intimidating Competitors � Endogenous Vertical Integration and Downstream Investment in Successive Oligopoly
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Keywords
vertically related oligopolies; investment; vertical integration; cost reduction;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
- L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2006-02-12 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-MIC-2006-02-12 (Microeconomics)
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