RESALE PRICE MAINTENANCE: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF UK FIRMS' COMPLIANCE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Giovannetti, Emanuele; Magazzini, Laura
• 署名单位: Anglia Ruskin University; University of Verona
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12063
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: F582-F595
• 关键词: trade

摘要

Empirical evidence on resale price maintenance (RPM) is scarce. This article provides novel empirical evidence based on a unique database of RPM complaints, lodged in the UK to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) between 2007 and 2009. We describe the characteristics of the commodity being traded and of the relevant upstream and downstream firms and their sectors. We then present an econometric analysis to assess how the probability of compliance to the OFT request to withdraw the RPM can be affected by the specific features of the relevant economic context in which this restraint has taken place.