This paper develops a dynamic model of retail competition and uses it to study the impact of the expansion of a new …

This paper provides experimental evidence on the effect of increased competition on prices and quality in the retail … areas where the number of entrants was larger. Competition seems to have driven part of the clientele away from incumbent …

Consumers often benefit from increased competition in differentiated product settings. In this paper we consider … consumer benefits from increased competition in a differentiated product setting: the spread of non-traditional retail outlets …

We analyze a number of unstudied aspects of retail electricity competition. We first explore the implications of load … homogeneous up to a scaling factor. In general, the combination of retail competition and load profiling does not yield the second … consumption, retail competition yields the Ramsey prices even when consumers can only partially respond to variations in real time …

industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We … measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies, tax holidays, loans, and tariffs …. Measures to foster competition include policies that are more dispersed across firms in a sector or measures that encourage …