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100			_aIde, Enrique and Montero, Juan-Pablo _947791
245			_aMonopolization with must-haves
260			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Microeconomics
300			_a16(3), Aug, 2024: p.284-320
520			_aAn increasing number of monopolization cases have been constructed around the notion of "must-have" items: products that distributors must carry to "compete effectively." Motivated by these cases, we consider a multiproduct setting where upstream suppliers sell their products through competing distributors offering one-stop-shopping convenience to consumers. We show the emergence of products that distributors cannot afford not to carry if their rivals do. A supplier of such products can exploit this must-have property, along with tying and exclusivity provisions, to monopolize adjacent, otherwise-competitive markets. Policy interventions that ban tying or exclusivity provisions may prove ineffective or even backfire.- Reproduced https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20230018
773			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Microeconomics
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