an essential part to bring the country on the path of economic growth, and competition within the sector is crucial to … achieve this goal. In this paper we analyze the effect of competition in public works tenders in the DRC. Using a unique and …

reputation building in bilateral bargaining, while buyer competition effectively masks this concern and robustly yields …

trustworthiness in anonymous transactions. Market competition creates incentives that arguably may enhance or curb the effectiveness … of these systems. We investigate how different forms of market competition and social reputation networks interact in a … series of laboratory online markets, where sellers face a moral hazard. We find that competition in strangers networks (where …

paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries … with respect to their initial cost distribution. This bias fosters future competition and reduces intertemporal expected …

increases competition between the contestants, leading to higher total contest effort, unless the ex-post bargaining strength of … stronger competition. …

are on electricity-included property lease contracts causing them to face a marginal electricity price of zero. We use … electricity in response to summer temperature fluctuations. The result is retrieved under weaker identifying assumptions than … previous split incentives papers, and is robust when exposed to several opportunities to fail. The electricity reduction in …

Proponents of Bitcoin argue that demand for electricity from Bitcoin miners can lead to an increase in renewable … electricity capacity. We rigorously evaluate this claim by estimating a Bitcoin electricity demand curve and include this demand … curve in a long-run model of the Texas electricity market. We find that while Bitcoin mining can indeed increase renewable …

We analyse the drivers of European Power Exchange (EPEX) wholesale electricity prices between 2012 and early 2022 using … effects are key in wholesale electricity markets. Out-of- sample prediction errors using machine learning are (slightly) lower … green the energy matrix on wholesale electricity prices are first order. CO2 permit prices strongly impact electricity …