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In der aktuellen Debatte zur Rekommunalisierung von Stromanbietern wird häufig das Argument der sicheren Versorgung zu niedrigen Preisen von Vertretern öffentlicher Eigentümer angeführt. Während die sichere Belieferung mit Strom im Rahmen der Grundversorgung gesetzlich vorgeschrieben ist,...
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Agency in Sweden during 2008 to 2010, in which over 4,000 participants were randomly offered private and public …
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In many countries welfare services that traditionally have been provided by the public sector are being contracted out to private providers. But are private contractors better at providing these services? We use a randomized experiment to empirically assess the effectiveness of contracting out...
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I derive and estimate a model for cover price setting in print media markets where actors are faced by two interrelated … coincide well with those of industry sources, magazines with a high circulation elasticity of advertising demand price markedly …
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disregard the rightmost digits of the price. This bounded rational behaviour leads to a Bertrand equilibrium with positive … markups. We use data from an Austrian price comparison site and find results highly compatible with Basu's theory. We can show … that price points - in particular prices ending in 9 - are prevalent and have significant impact on consumer demand …
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Price adjustments, particularly the cost pass-through relationships, are at the core of the analysis on how asymmetric …
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of petrol price changes in Austria, Germany, France and Spain can be explained by changes in allowances prices (between …
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We consider a model of firm pricing and consumer choice, where consumers are loss averse and uncertain about their future demand. Possibly, consumers in our model prefer a flat rate to a measured tariff, even though this choice does not minimize their expected billing amount - a behavior in line...
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This paper presents novel evidence of price discrimination, using prices of identical goods in 28 countries. I explain … variable mark-ups account for 80% of the positive price-income relationship across 123 countries. …
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Due to potential abuse of the market power at wholesale and retail market level for natural gas the Federal Cartel Office in Germany prohibited further forward integration of gas importing firms with retail incumbents from 2005/2006 to 2010. The Authority argued that the very few dominant gas...
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