Sabotage in Vertically Integrated Monopolies

Student: Garmash Natalia

Faculty: International College of Economics and Finance

Educational Programme: Double degree programme in Economics of the NRU HSE and the University of London (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2016

The primary purpose of the study was to broaden the field of research on different types of discriminatory actions that vertically integrated producers use. So an assumption of sabotage that is not free was introduced, that makes monopoly to choose an appropriate level of discriminatory actions more carefully, in particular, target specific competitors.

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