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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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This paper develops a theory of oligopoly and markups in general equilibrium. Firms compete in a network of product … new measure of firm productivity that accounts for product quality; 2) a metric of network centrality, which captures the …
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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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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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Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...
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-quality menus to segment the market. We show that, contrary to the Coase conjecture for the homogeneous durable good monopoly …
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A durable good monopolist faces a continuum of heterogeneous customers who make purchase decisions by comparing present and expected price-quality offers. The monopolist designs a sequence of price-quality menus to segment the market. We consider the Markov Perfect Equilibrium (MPE) of a game...
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traditional analysis of price discrimination, are driven by the existence of cross-group network effects. By improving the firm …
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monopoly distortions, reducing the deadweight loss of markups for high-income countries by 15% while increasing it by 44% among …
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