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Tied and True Exclusion: Comment on Jean Tirole’s “The Analysis of Tying Cases”
 |  Jan 14, 2013

Barry Nalebuff, Apr 01, 2005 The takeaway point of Tirole’s excellent primer is that tying, while potentially exclusionary, does not deserve special treatment. This commentary offers two reasons why tying should be accorded special treatment. First, unlike predatory pricing, tying offers a monopolist the ability to engage in no-cost predation. A critical component of the […]

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