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Market concentration and product variety under spatial competition : evidence from retail gasoline
Goetz, Georg; Gugler, Klaus - 2004
gasoline market confirms that increases in concentration reduce product variety. Ignoring this product variety effect is likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261269
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Concentration in International Markets: Evidence from US Imports
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino - 2021
We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the … typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive … firms within country are diverging. Finally, higher concentration from an origin country is associated with a fall in prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582049
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Negative intra-group externalities in two-sided markets
Belleflamme, Paul; Toulemonde, Eric - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264140
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International trade and retailing
Eckel, Carsten - 2009
The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264598
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Competition and relationship lending: Friends or foes?
Presbitero, Andrea F.; Zazzaro, Alberto - 2010
concentration on relationship lending which cannot be easily accommodated by the investment and strategic theories of relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270467
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Imports, pass-through, and the structure of retail markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009
We construct a model of trade with heterogeneous retailers to examine the effects of trade liberalization on retail market structure, imports and social welfare. We are especially interested in studying the degree of pass-through of import into retail prices and the effects of retail market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276624
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317024
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Corporate Tax Avoidance and Industry Concentration
Martin, Julien - 2020
This paper argues that tax avoidance by large corporations has contributed to the 25% increase in concentration among U … that the average industry concentration would have been 8.3% lower, which is around its early 2000 level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825999
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Concentration in International Markets : Evidence from US Imports
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino - 2021
We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the … typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive … firms within country are diverging. Finally, higher concentration from an origin country is associated with a fall in prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235106
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Financial Development and Export Concentration
Unger, Florian - 2023
This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into … production costs instead of investments suggests a negative impact of financial development on export concentration as smaller … support for the predictions of the investment model that higher financial development increases export concentration among top …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255423