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 regulations are already in place in several countries, but … whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria’s Fuel …

In this paper we analyse the bank merger between DnB and Gjensidige Bank in 2003, ranked by market share as number one … unaffected markets, but this relationship is weak and not statistically significant. The merger also affected the riskiness of … the modest effects of the merger. The weak effects are largely coincident with international literature showing the …

This paper reports the results from a statistical analysis of pharmaceutical price negotiations in Germany, where the …' launch strategy (freely chosen first year price) still has a major impact on pricing while the impact of the additional …

We propose a new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand that exploits systematic differences … across U.S. states in the pass-through of oil price shocks to retail gasoline prices. We show that these differences are … transportation infrastructure, refinery technology, and environmental regulations, creating cross-sectional gasoline price shocks in …