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Three essays in industrial organization: pay-for-delay settlements, exclusive contracts, and price discrimination
Three essays in industrial organization: pay-for-delay settlements, exclusive contracts, and price discrimination
This dissertation encompasses three essays in the field of Industrial Organization. The first paper asks the policy relevant question how pay-for-delay settlements in the pharmaceutical industry should be regulated in order to maximize consumer welfare. The second paper examines the welfare effects of exclusive contracts under consideration of the possibility of contract breach and imperfect downstream competition within a theoretical model. The third paper investigates how the profitability of third degree price discrimination is affected by consumers’ fairness preferences within an experimental study. The results of the experiment are explained within a theoretical model.
pay-for-delay settlements, exclusive contracts, third degree price discrimination
Gratz, Linda
2012
Englisch
Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Gratz, Linda (2012): Three essays in industrial organization: pay-for-delay settlements, exclusive contracts, and price discrimination. Dissertation, LMU München: Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät
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This dissertation encompasses three essays in the field of Industrial Organization. The first paper asks the policy relevant question how pay-for-delay settlements in the pharmaceutical industry should be regulated in order to maximize consumer welfare. The second paper examines the welfare effects of exclusive contracts under consideration of the possibility of contract breach and imperfect downstream competition within a theoretical model. The third paper investigates how the profitability of third degree price discrimination is affected by consumers’ fairness preferences within an experimental study. The results of the experiment are explained within a theoretical model.