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Taxation and market power
Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian; Müller, Wieland - 2009
We analyze the incidence and welfare effects of unit sales taxes in experimental monopoly and Bertrand markets. We find …, in line with economic theory, that firms with no market power are able to shift a high share of a tax burden on to … consumers, independent of whether buyers are automated or human players. In monopoly markets, a monopolist bears a large share …
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Industry structure and pricing over the business cycle
Spiegel, Yossi; Stahl, Konrad - 2014
We consider the interaction between an incumbent firm and a potential entrant, and examine how this interaction is affected by demand fluctuations. Our model gives rise to procyclical entry, prices, and price-cost margins, although the average price in the market can be countercyclical if the...
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Price equilibrium with selling constraints
Moraga-González, José Luis; Watanabe, Makoto - 2023
This paper studies how selling constraints, which refer to the inability of firms to attend to all the buyers who want to inspect their products, affect the equilibrium price and social welfare. We show that the price that maximizes social welfare is greater than the marginal cost. This is...
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The dynamics of product and labor market power : evidence from Lithuania
Ding, Ziran; Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Jouvanceau, Valentin - 2024
This paper characterizes the power dynamics of firms in both product and labor markets in Lithuania between 2004 and 2018. We first show that both markets are not perfectly competitive, as both price markups and wage markdowns are far from unitary and homogeneous. Interestingly, we unveil that...
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Product differentiation and oligopoly : a network approach
Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023
This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product …
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Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market revisited
Basak, Debasmita; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016
In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises...
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Price coordination in two-sided markets : competition in the TV industry
Kind, Hans Jarle; Nilssen, Tore; Sørgard, Lars - 2010
The TV industry is a two-sided market where both advertisers and viewers buy access to the programs offered by competing TV channels. Under the current market structure advertising prices are typically set by TV channels while viewer prices are set by distributors (e.g. cable operators). The...
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Welfare implications of personalized pricing in competitive platform markets : the role of network effects
Lu, Qiuyu; Matsushima, Noriaki; Shekhar, Shiva - 2024
This study explores the welfare impact of personalized pricing for consumers in a duopolistic two-sided market, with consumers single-homing and developers affiliating with a platform according to their outside option. Personalized pricing, which is private in nature, cannot influence...
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Fighting collusion by permitting price discrimination
Helfrich, Magdalena; Herweg, Fabian - 2016
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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Complexity, efficiency, and fairness of multi-product monopoly pricing
Miravete, Eugenio J.; Seim, Katja; Thurk, Jeff - 2014
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board administers the purchase and sale of wine and spirits and is mandated to charge a uniform 30% markup on all products. We use an estimated discrete choice model of demand for spirits, together with information on wholesale prices, to assess the implications...
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