generation industry. We examine the degree of competition in the California wholesale electricity market during June …Effective competition in wholesale electricity markets is the cornerstone of the deregulation of the electricity …

This article describes the effects of the subprime and credit crisis on the California housing market and the fall 2009 …. Present trends suggest that the California housing market may be stabilizing, but it is unlikely that prices will fully …

range from 5% to 10%. To measure competition directly, we apply a novel approach that estimates the impact of marginal costs … as indicator of inefficiency on either market shares or profits. Over time, competition in health insurance has increased … fall in the average level of competitive pressure. After the reform, competition continued to improve. In the non …

The lack of available prices in the Dutch life insurance industry makes competition an elusive concept that defies … direct observation. Therefore, this paper investigates competition by analysing several factors which may affect the … Xinefficiency, since severe competition would force firms to exploit available scale economies and to reduce X-inefficiencies. Both …

This paper demonstrates that the level of competition in the existing Panzar Rosse (P-R) literature is systematically … overestimated and that the tests on both monopoly and perfect competition are distorted. This is due to the use of bank revenues … and empirical evidence to illustrate the impact of the misspecification on the estimation of competition and the …

absolute figures and relative to the size of smaller banks. This paper analyzes the impact of this development on competition … that competition increases with bank size. We show that misspecification of the P-R model in the existing literature leads …

oligopoly theory regarding cost savings, competition, and consumer welfare. …