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Endogenous price commitment, sticky and leadership pricing : evidence from the Italian petrol market
Andreoli Versbach, Patrick; Franck, Jens-Uwe - 2013
This article studies dynamic pricing strategies in the Italian gasoline market before and after the market leader unilaterally announced its commitment to adopt a sticky-pricing policy. Using daily Italian firm level prices and weekly average EU prices, we show that the effect of the new policy...
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Vertical differentiation and collusion : cannibalization or proliferation?
Gabszewicz, Jean Jaskold; Marini, Marco A.; Tarola, Ornella - 2016
In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the assumption that some firms collude and control both the range of variants for sale and their corresponding prices, likewise a multiproduct firm. We analyse whether pruning...
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Estimating vertical foreclosure in US gasoline supply
Aydemir, Zava (contributor); Bühler, Stefan (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We examine the competitive effects of the vertical integration of gasoline refineries and retailers in the U.S. Adapting the first-order condition approach of static oligopoly games to the analysis of vertically related oligopolies, we develop a novel framework for directly evaluating the...
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Demand growth, entry and collusion sustainability
Capuano, Carlo - 2002
The purpose of this paper is to represent in which way a stable and no negligible growth in demand can affect the level of sustainability of collusion. For the European Commission this assumption is seen as a factor that disincentives collusion and pushes to a competitive behavior. This fact...
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Cartel sustainability and cartel stability
Escrihuela-Villar, Marc - 2004
The paper studies how does the size of a cartel affect the possibility that its members can sustain a collusive … agreement. I obtain that collusion is easier to sustain the larger the cartel is. Then, I explore the implications of this … result on the incentives of firms to participate in a cartel. Firms will be more willing to participate because otherwise …
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Multisided media markets : applying the theory of multisided markets to media markets
Lindstädt-Dreusicke, Nadine - 2009
Media markets recently have been identified as multisided markets. The application of the theory of multisided markets provides a better understanding of such markets. It enriched the hitherto economic approach and led to new insights and perspectives especially for the antitrust authorities...
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Two-sided markets with pecuniary and participation externalities
Schmidtke, Richard - 2006
The existing literature on "two-sided markets" addresses participation externalities, but so far it has neglected pecuniary externalities between competing platforms. In this paper we build a model that incorporates both externalities. In our setup differentiated platforms compete in advertising...
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Two-sided markets with negative externalities
Reisinger, Markus - 2004
This paper analyses a two-sided market in which two platforms compete against each other. One side, the advertisers, exerts a negative externality on the ther side, the users. It is shown that if platforms can charge advertisers only, a higher degree of competition for users can lead to higher...
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Collusion in quality-segmented markets
Bos, Iwan; Marini, Marco - 2020
. Within this setting, we study four types of price-fixing agreement: (i) a segment-wide cartel in the premium submarket only …, (ii) a segment-wide cartel in the standard submarket only, (iii) two segment-wide cartels, and (iv) an industrywide cartel …-wide cartel prefers to maintain market shares at pre-collusive levels. The impact on consumer and social welfare critically …
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Seemingly irrelevant factors and willingness to block polluting investments
Ajzenman, Nicolas; Balza, Lenin H.; Bejarano, Hernan; … - 2023
Using an online multi-country video-vignette survey experiment, we measure bias against extractive industries and foreign firms in individuals perceptions and preferences related to industrial projects with potential economic benefits and environmental costs. Individuals face a hypothetical...
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