-binding price requests. Using a laboratory experiment, we examine how competition moderates the way such cheap-talk communication … competition, although some of them become weaker. Our main findings are the following: (i) The ability of sellers to make non … bargaining and in competition; (ii) Competition reduces the informativeness of the price requests and weakens the anchoring …

increase with the intensity of competition. We develop a new measure of competition for which we use the proximity (in … departure time) of a given flight to its competitors to infer the intensity of competition and estimate the impact of … competition on advance purchase discounts (APDs) and the dynamic pricing of airlines by exploiting plausibly exogenous changes in …

taking into account competition between multiple privatized transport operator types. The operators, including high …