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Collusive Agreements in Vertically Differentiated Markets
Marini, Marco A. - 2017
proliferating their products. It is shown that a selective pruning within the cartel always occurs. Moreover, by associating a … cooperative (or coalitional) stability of the whole industry cartel is the equidistance of firms' products along the quality …
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Mothballing in a Duopoly : Evidence from a (Shale) Oil Market
Comincioli, Nicola; Hagspiel, Verena; Kort, Peter M.; … - 2020
The mothballing option has been studied in the literature, but mainly in decision theoretic frameworks. This paper looks at it from a strategic point of view and applies it to an incumbent-entrant framework. In particular, based on the recent strategic interactions between OPEC and the shale oil...
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Unconventional Gas and the European Union : Prospects and Challenges for Competitiveness
Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - 2015
This article studies the likely impact of unconventional gas developments in the U.S. on EU competitiveness. We find, first of all, little evidence for a prosperous unconventional gas development in Europe. Second, the U.S. boom has already a strong impact on both world and European energy...
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Asymmetric Price Transmission in Supply Function Equilibrium, Carbon Prices and the German Electricity Spot Market
Wölfing, Nikolas M. - 2013
In January 2007, first evidence of an asymmetric pass-through of CO2 emission allowance prices was reported for the German electricity spot market. This paper explores the theoretical basis for such an asymmetry in the context of a supply function bidding duopoly. It interprets fluctuating...
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Congestion Management Games in Electricity Markets
Ehrhart, Karl-Martin; Eicke, Anselm; Hirth, Lion; … - 2022
This paper proposes a game-theoretic model to analyze the strategic behavior of inc-dec gaming in market-based congestion management (redispatch). We extend existing models by considering incomplete information about competitors’ costs and a finite set of providers. We find that these...
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The Impacts of Exogenous Oil Supply Shocks on Mediterranean Economies
Bastianin, Andrea - 2016
The security of energy supply is a key geopolitical factor in the relationship between the European Union and the southern neighborhood countries of the Middle East and North Africa region. We study the response of eight Mediterranean economies to exogenous oil supply shocks. We focus on the...
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The External Cost of European Crude Oil Imports
Bigano, Andrea - 2009
This paper is the first to assess operational and probabilistic externalities of oil extraction and transportation to Europe on the basis of a comprehensive evaluation of realistic future oil demand-supply scenarios, of the relative relevance of import routes, of the local specificities in terms...
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Modelling the Global Price of Oil : Is There Any Role for the Oil Futures-Spot Spread?
Valenti, Daniele - 2018
In this work, we propose an analysis of the global market for crude oil based on a revised version of the Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) model introduced by Kilian and Murphy (2014). On this respect, we replace the global proxy for above-ground crude oil inventories with the oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115111
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Estimating Consumer Damages in Cartel Cases
Laitenberger, Ulrich - 2013
We use consumer panel data to calculate the damage suffered by German consumers due to a detergent cartel that was … the period from July 2004 until March 2005. Under the assumptions that the cartel-induced share on turnover is … representative for the entire cartel period and all affected markets, the overall consumer damage would even sum up to about 315 …
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Do Pay-as-Bid Auctions Favor Collusion? Evidence from Germany's Market for Reserve Power
Heim, Sven - 2013
We analyze a drastic price increase in the German auction market for reserve power, which did not appear to be driven by increased costs. Studying the market structure and individual bidding strategies, we find evidence for collusive behavior in an environment with repeated auctions, pivotal...
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