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Tax pass-through in the European beer market
Ardalan, Aria; Kessing, Sebastian - 2019
We study the pass-through of indirect taxes on beer prices in the European Union (EU). Exploiting the variation of … value added tax rates, beer excise tax rates, and beer prices in a panel of monthly data from 1996 to 2016 of all current 28 … EU member states, we estimate the tax pass-through of specific beer excise taxes and ad valorem value added taxes (VAT …
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Vertical relations, passthrough and market definition : evidence from grocery retailing
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Klein, Gordon J.; … - 2020
We examine how different pass-through rates, from input- to final consumer prices, and different vertical contracts affect upstream market definition. Our theory model predicts that, under reasonable conditions, higher pass-through rates lead to definitions of larger upstream markets. Data...
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Vertical market power in interconnected natural gas and electricity markets
Marks, Levi; Mason, Charles F.; Mohlin, Kristina; … - 2017
consider improvements to market design and regulation as these two energy markets become increasingly interlinked. …
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Vertical integration and downstream collusion
Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David - 2016
We investigate the effect of a vertical merger on downstream firms' ability to collude in a repeated game framework. We show that a vertical merger has two main effects. On the one hand, it increases the total collusive profits, increasing the stakes of collusion. On the other hand, it creates...
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Upstream horizontal mergers and efficiency gains
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Pavlou, Apostolis - 2009
We study upstream horizontal mergers and their potential efficiency gains. We show that an upstream horizontal merger can give rise to two efficiency-enhancing effects when firms trade through two-part tariffs. It increases R&D investments and decreases wholesale prices when downstream...
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Manufacturers mergers and product variety in vertically related markets
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Sandonís, Joel - 2014
We study final product manufacturers’ incentives to introduce new products into the market and how they are affected by a merger among them. We show that when manufacturers distribute their products through multi-product retailers, a manufacturers merger, although it leads to an increase in...
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Vertical licensing, input pricing, and entry
Bakaouka, Elpiniki; Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2017
We explore the incentives of a vertically integrated incumbent firm to license the production technology of its core input to an external firm, transforming the licensee into its input supplier. We find that the incumbent opts for licensing even when licensing also transforms the licensee into...
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What happened to U.S. business dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T. - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
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Concentration in international markets : evidence from US imports
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2021
We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive margin: the number of exporting firms has grown, and the...
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Concentrating on the fall of the labor share
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017
The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and low labor...
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