The Anticompetitive Potential of MFNs

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James Nieberding, Aug 22, 2014

Under competition, sellers independently set their prices and often engage in price discrimination by charging different buyers different prices for the same item. However, under a variety of price-protection programs, sellers commit to prices that may limit their pricing freedom by linking prices to some buyers to those charged to other buyers. While such price provisions are known by acronyms such