期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
印刷版ISSN：0804-6824
出版年度：2006
卷号：2006
出版社：Bergen
摘要：Slotting allowances are fees paid by manufacturers to get access to
retailers’ shelf space. Both in the USA and Europe, the use of slotting allowances
has attracted attention in the general press as well as among policy makers and
economists. One school of thought claims that slotting allowances are efficiency
enhancing, while another school of thought maintains that slotting allowances are
used in an anti-competitive manner. In this paper, we argue that this controversy is
partially caused by inadequate assumptions of how the retail market is structured
and organized. Using a formal model, we show that there are good reasons to
expect anti-competitive effects of slotting allowances. We further point out that
competition authorities tend to use an unsatisfactory basis for comparison when
analyzing welfare consequences of slotting allowances.
