Essays in industrial organization : exclusionary contracts and advertising choice

This dissertation addresses some interesting questions related to exclusionary contracts and advertising choice. The first paper develops a model of long-term contracts as barriers to entry with differentiated products. It shows that if an incumbent firm can hold the consumer surplus in the pre-entr...

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Main Author: Ucar, Sebnem
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26799