Oligopoly models of short-run price competition predict that large firms can exercise market power and generate …

(QHFT) model, we classify export goods (at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation) by quality and price competition. We find … a high proportions of quality-competition goods for the major EU countries and lower proportions for Canada, Australia … and China. However, the overlap of these quality-competition goods is not large, which suggests that characteristics of …

power. In those situations, governments could attempt to regulate the market or to increase competition. We provide the … first experimental evidence on the effect of increased competition on prices and quality relying on an intervention that …

and inventories, as the firms are more able to avoid the intense competition in low inventory states. While average bids …

We analyze a number of unstudied aspects of retail electricity competition. We first explore the implications of load … homogeneous up to a scaling factor. In general, the combination of retail competition and load profiling does not yield the second … consumption, retail competition yields the Ramsey prices even when consumers can only partially respond to variations in real time …