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- Title
Assessing the anticompetitive effects of multiproduct pricing.
- Authors
Carlton, Dennis W.; Greenlee, Patrick; Waldman, Michael
- Abstract
This article examines the impact of multiproduct pricing on anticompetitive exclusionary conduct in business. It discusses various rationales for nonlinear pricing strategies, such as exclusionary and nonexclusionary rationales and competitive and potentially anticompetitive rationales. In addition, it highlights the nonexclusionary motives for tying and bundling including achieving efficiencies in production or selling, price discrimination, increasing product differentiation. The authors conclude the confusion in using proper approach for the analysis of antitrust claims involving single product quantity discounts and multiproduct nonlinear prices schedules due to failure in distinguishing price discrimination from that harms competition.
- Subjects
PRICING; PRICE discrimination; NONLINEAR pricing; PRODUCT differentiation; QUANTITY discounts; ECONOMIC competition; DISCOUNT prices; BRAND differentiation; ANTITRUST law
- Publication
Antitrust Bulletin, 2008, Vol 53, Issue 3, p587
- ISSN
0003-603X
- Publication type
Article