Privatisation and Vertical Integration under a Mixed Duopoly

[EN] This paper analyses the privatisation of public firms when private firms may be vertically in- tegrated with their suppliers. We consider a mixed duopoly with a vertically integrated public firm. The private firm bargains the price of the input with its supplier if they are not vertically integ...

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Autores: Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos, Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Recursos:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/63855
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/63855
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:privatisation
vertical integration
mixed duopoly
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Resumo:[EN] This paper analyses the privatisation of public firms when private firms may be vertically in- tegrated with their suppliers. We consider a mixed duopoly with a vertically integrated public firm. The private firm bargains the price of the input with its supplier if they are not vertically integrated. We find that for a given bargaining power of the private firm, it vertically integrates with its supplier if goods are weak substitutes. We also find that there is less vertical integration in the mixed duopoly than in the private duopoly. Finally, in general, the public firm is privatised when goods are close substitutes and the bargaining power of the private firm is low enough.