Downstream Competition, Foreclosure and Vertical Integration

Gilles Chemla , Gilles Chemla (1)

1 DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management

This paper shows that dominant firms may wish to encourage competition in vertically-related markets. It shows that firms' incentives to vertically integrate other firms depends on the competitive environment.

Mots clés: competition; forclosure; vertical integration

Domaines: Economies et finances

Gilles Chemla, Gilles Chemla. Downstream Competition, Foreclosure and Vertical Integration. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2003, 12 (2), pp.261-289. ⟨halshs-00679847⟩