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Does marketing widen borders? : cross-country price dispersion in the European car market

Dvir, Eyal; Strasser, Georg - 2017 - This version: May 2017

We study cross-country price differences in the European market for new passenger cars based on detailed pricing and technical data. Car prices in Europe converged until the year 2003, but not thereafter. Within the EU 15 countries the price range of the median model in 2004 was close to 20...

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Trade linkages and the globalisation of inflation in Asia and the Pacific

Auer, Raphael A.; Mehrotra, Aaron N. - 2014

Some observers argue that increased real integration has led to greater co-movement of prices internationally. We examine the evidence for cross-border price spillovers among economies participating in the pan-Asian cross-border production networks. Starting with country-level data, we find that...

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Reciprocity, world prices and welfare

Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Woodland, Alan D. - 2011

We examine in detail the circumstances under which reciprocity, as defined in Bagwell and Staiger (1999), leads to fixed world prices. We show that a change of tariffs satisfying reciprocity does not necessarily imply constant world prices in a world of many goods and countries. While it is...

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Integrated versus segmented markets : implications for export pricing and welfare

Becker, Raphael N.; Nigai, Sergey; Seidel, Tobias - 2020

This paper challenges the common assumption of market segmentation in international trade. To analyze export entry and pricing decisions of firms in integrated vs. segmented markets, we develop a novel tractable approach based on stochastic export costs that allows us to compare firm-level and...

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Price effects of the Austrian fuel price fixing act : a synthetic control study

Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021

Price Fixing Act on gasoline and diesel price levels. Using the synthetic control method, we construct a counterfactual and … Price Fixing Act came into effect, gasoline prices are 23.4% lower than the synthetic control predicts. The effect on diesel … effective in terms of gasoline prices but may need further refinements to effectively tackle diesel prices as well. …

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Estimating pass-through rates for the 2022 tax reduction on fuel prices in Germany

Dovern, Jonas; Frank, Johannes; Glas, Alexander; … - 2022

months, starting on 1 June 2022. Using the synthetic control method to compare actual prices of gasoline and diesel to those …

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Is it all oil?

Asche, Frank (contributor); Osmundsen, Petter (contributor); … - 2005

After opening up of the Interconnector, the liberalized UK natural gas market and the regulated Continental gas markets became physically integrated. The oil-linked Continental gas price became dominant, due to both the large volume of the Continental market and to the fact that the significant...

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Price equalization does not imply free trade

Mutreja, Piyusha; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; … - 2013

In this paper we show that price equalization alone is not sufficient to determine the barriers to international trade. There are many barrier combinations that deliver price equalization, but each combination implies a different volume of trade. We demonstrate this first theoretically in a...

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The effects of mandatory disclosure of supermarket prices

Ater, Itai; Rigbi, Oren - 2018

We study how mandatory online disclosure of supermarket prices affects prices and price dispersion in brick-and-mortar stores. Using data collected before and after a transparency regulation went into effect in the Israeli food retail market, multiple complementary control groups and relying on...

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European market integration for gas? : volume flexibility and political risk

Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000

Gas exports to the Continent are regulated by long term take-or-pay contracts. The contracts are described and analyzed. We thereafter examine whether the most central European gas market, the German market, is integrated. Are there substantial price differences between gas from different export...

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