TY  - JOUR
AU  - Krishna,Kala
AU  - Itoh,Motoshige
TI  - Content Protection and Oligopolistic Interactions
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1843
PY  - 1988
Y2  - December 1988
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1843
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1843.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Kala Krishna
Department of Economics
523 Kern Graduate Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Tel: 814/865-1106
Fax: 814/863-4775
E-Mail: kmk4@psu.edu
AB  - In oligopolistic situations content protection can have unexpected effects as it changes the nature of interactions between input suppliers. With a duoply, it does so in a manner that makes the foreign firm wish to match price increases and decreases of the domestic firm. Domestic input suppliers can therefore lose from such policies, even when set at free trade levels. The relation between input demands, the form of protection, and the degree of substitution between inputs is shown to define the effects of content protection and to provide the basis for understanding who might lobby for protection in different environments.
ER  -