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I extend multi-unit auction estimation techniques to a setting in which firms can express cost complementarities over time. In the context of electricity markets, I show how the auction structure and bidding data can be used to estimate these complementarities, which in these markets arise due...
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welfare losses is 1/ n2 . The results extend to demand schedule competition and a range of applications in product and …
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uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition … the collusive level. Furthermore, competition in supply functions aggregates the dispersed information of firms (the … equilibrium is privately revealing) while Cournot competition does not. The implication is that with the former the only source of …
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-Nash equilibria in a duopoly. Comparing equilibrium prices to the prices set by a multiproduct monopolist, we show that competition … drives prices up and may lead to price dispersion. Competition reduces total surplus in the short run but provides higher …
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I extend multi-unit auction estimation techniques to a setting in which firms can express cost complementarities over time. In the context of electricity markets, I show how the auction structure and bidding data can be used to estimate these complementarities, which in these markets arise due...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877888
competition. This paper formalizes this empirical observation and characterizes its impact on leakage. Domestic firms invest in …
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quantities in Cournot competition. In addition to profits, firms can choose to care for the surplus of either all consumers (CSR …
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We investigate the effect of a ban on third-degree price discrimination on the sustainability of collusion. We build a model with two firms that may be able to discriminate between two consumer groups. Two cases are analyzed: (i) Best-response symmetries so that profits in the static Nash...
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perfectly observable. In a two-stage competition, duopolistic firms are subject to strict liability and segment the market such …
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applies more generally to duopoly pricing …
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