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Algorithmic Pricing and Competition : Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market

Assad, Stephanie - 2020

Economic theory provides ambiguous and conflicting predictions about the association between algorithmic pricing and competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany's retail gasoline market where algorithmic-pricing software became widely...

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Preferential Trade Liberalization with Endogenous Cartel Discipline : Implications for Welfare and Optimal Trade Policies

Agnosteva, Delina - 2020

We consider an international cartel whose members interact repeatedly in their own as well as in third …-country segmented markets. Cartel discipline-an inverse measure of the degree of competition between firms-is endogenously determined by … the cartel's incentive compatibility constraint (ICC), which links strategically markets that are seemingly unrelated …

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Gender and Collusion

Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina; Rau, Holger Andreas - 2022

Many cartels are formed by individual managers of different firms, but not by firms as collectives. However, most of the literature in industrial economics neglects individuals’ incentives to form cartels. Although oligopoly experiments reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms,...

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Negative Intra-Group Externalities in Two-Sided Markets

Belleflamme, Paul; Toulemonde, Eric - 2021

Two types of agents interact on a pre-existing free platform. Agents value positively the presence of agents of the other type but may value negatively the presence of agents of their own type. We ask whether a new platform can find fees and subsidies so as to divert agents from the existing...

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The Welfare Effects of Persuasion and Taxation : Theory and Evidence from the Field

Rodemeier, Matthias - 2020

How much information should governments reveal to consumers if consumption choices have uninternalized consequences to society? How does an alternative tax policy compare to information disclosure? We develop a price theoretic model of information design that allows empiricists to identify the...

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The Econometrics of Oil Market VAR Models

Kilian, Lutz - 2020

Oil market VAR models have become the standard tool for understanding the evolution of the real price of oil and its impact in the macro economy. As this literature has expanded at a rapid pace, it has become increasingly difficult for mainstream economists to understand the differences between...

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Environmental Policy with Green Consumerism

Ambec, Stefan - 2020

Is green consumerism beneficial to the environment and the economy? To shed light on this question, we study the political economy of environmental regulations in a model with neutral and green consumers where the latter derive some warm glow from buying a good of higher environmental quality...

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Efficiency in Wholesale Electricity Markets : On the Role of Externalities and Subsidies

Bialek, Sylwia; Unel, Burcin - 2021

This paper studies the effects of capacity market reforms that the U.S. grid operators have undertaken in response to state-level subsidies paid to emission-free electricity generation. We first derive an analytical model of energy-and-capacity markets that allows us to predict the price and...

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Price Effects of the Austrian Fuel Price Fixing Act : A Synthetic Control Study

Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021

Fuel prices are commonly perceived to be excessively high, which regularly triggers political discussions about fuel price regulations. Consumers demand stricter fuel price regulations to provide transparency about the current price level and to protect them from sudden price fluctuations. Such...

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Interdependencies between Countries in the Provision of Energy

Radulescu, Doina; Sulger, Philippe - 2021

Many economies are concerned with the future security of electricity supply. This is rooted in the necessity to decarbonise energy systems and in the nuclear phase-out. Hence, some economies, instead of investing in own domestic energy capacity, rely on energy production by their neighbours. At...

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