Market Regulation and Multimarket Rivalry
通过模型和实验室实验,研究对X市场的价格上限监管如何影响双寡头在Y市场的产量,发现温和监管降低Y产量,严格监管则提高Y产量。
Multimarket contact between duopolists in an X and Y market is modelled with a trigger strategy. We show that mildly restrictive price-cap regulation in the X market decreases Y market quantities; but restrictive caps in the X market have a positive impact on Y market outputs. Behavior in laboratory markets confirms these propositions. Regulation that lowers X market prices by a small amount results in a statistically significant reduction in Y outputs. When the regulated X market price is reduced to the Cournot/Nash level, Y market outputs rise to a point statistically indistinguishable from the unregulated quantities.