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Exclusionary Minimum Resale Price Maintenance

Asker, John - 2010

incumbent manufacturer transfer profits to retailers. If entry is accommodated, upstream competition leads to fierce down …- stream competition and the breakdown of RPM. Hence, via RPM, retailers internalize the effect of accommodating entry on the … effect of a retailer cartel. We also consider the effect of imperfect competition. Empirical and policy implications are …

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Vertical Information Restraints : Pro- and Anti-Competitive Impacts of Minimum Advertised Price Restrictions

Asker, John - 2016

restraints, thereby, soften retail competition—an impact also generated by resale price maintenance (RPM). However, by …

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Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition an Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets

Bushnell, James - 2007

This paper examines vertical arrangements in electricity markets. Vertically integrated wholesalers, or those with long-term contracts, have less incentive to raise wholesale prices when retail prices are determined beforehand. For three restructured markets, we simulate prices that define...

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Competition and Price Dispersion in the U.S. Airline Industry

Borenstein, Severin; Rose, Nancy E. - 2021

This papers analyzes dispersion in the prices that an airline charges to different customers on the same route. Such variation in airlines fares is substantial: the expected absolute difference in fares between two of an airline's passengers on a route averages thirty-six percent of the...

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Empirical Evidence on Conditional Pricing Practices

Genchev, Bogdan - 2016

Conditional pricing practices allow the terms of sale between a producer and a downstream distributor to vary based on the ability of the downstream firm to meet a set of conditions put forward by the producer. The conditions may require a downstream firm to accept minimum quantities or multiple...

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Uniform Pricing in Us Retail Chains

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2019

wide variation in consumer demographics and competition. Demand estimates reveal substantial within-chain variation in …

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On What States Do Prices Depend? Answers from Ecuador

Benedict, Craig - 2016

In this paper, we argue that differences in the cost structure across sectors play an important role in the decision of firms to adjust their prices. We develop a menu-cost model of pricing in which retail firms intermediate trade between producers and consumers. An important facet of our...

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The Impact of E-Commerce on Relative Prices and Consumer Welfare

Jo, Yoon; Matsumura, Misaki; Weinstein, David E. - 2021

This paper examines the impact of e-commerce on pricing behavior and welfare. Using Japanese data, we find that the entry of e-commerce firms significantly raised the rate of intercity price convergence for goods sold intensively online, but not for other goods. E-commerce also lowered relative...

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Dynamic Pricing in Retail Gasoline Markets

Borenstein, Severin; Shepard, Andrea - 2021

This paper tests for price patterns in retail gasoline markets consistent with those predicted by models of implicit collusion among firms. Recent supergame models show that the highest supportable collusive price is a function of today's profit relative to expected future profit: collusive...

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Nominal Rigidities and Retail Price Dispersion in Canada Over the Twentieth Century

Hickey, Ross D. - 2010

We introduce a new data set on over 230,000 monthly prices for 10 goods in 50 Canadian cities over the 40 year period from 1910 to 1950. This coupled with previously published price information from the late twentieth century allows us to present one of the first comprehensive views of nominal...

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