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Ranking have become increasingly popular on markets for study programs, restaurants, wines, cars, etc. This paper analyses the welfare implication of such rankings. Consumers have to make a choice between two goods of unknown quality with exogenous presence or absence of an informative ranking....
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A model is presented of a uniform price auction where bidders compete in demand schedules; the model allows for common …
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-differentiated, price-setting game in the second stage. Since costs are endogenized through the first stage, this has important implications …
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stage, with a price-setting market game to follow in the second stage. Using data for eight European airlines from 1976 …–94, we provide evidence on price-cost margins and the measurement of market power in a model of rent sharing. In particular …
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uniform-price multi-unit auction model with complete information. We find that forward contracts are pro-competitive when …
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In uniform auctions, buyers choose demand schedules as strategies and pay the same ‘market clearing’ price for units … underpricing can be made arbitrarily small by choosing a sufficiently small price tick size and a sufficiently large quantity …
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I revisit the relation between aftermarket power and basic market competition. I consider an infinite period model with overlapping consumers: in each period, one consumer is born and joins one of the existing installed bases, then aftermarket payoffs are received by sellers and consumers, then...
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We study uniform price auctions using a dataset that includes individual bidders' demand schedules in Finnish Treasury …
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This paper empirically tests the effects of Anti-Dumping (AD) protection on the price-cost margin of firms. To this end … indicate that price-cost margins in most cases significantly increase in the period of protection compared to a period before … protection. In industries where competition is very tough before protection, we fail to find an increase in price-cost margins …
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We study the welfare implications of market power in a model where banks choose between credit rationing and monitoring in order to alleviate an underlying moral-hazard problem. We show that the effect of banks’ market power on social welfare is the result of two countervailing effects. On the...
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