power. In those situations, governments could attempt to regulate the market or to increase competition. We provide the … first experimental evidence on the effect of increased competition on prices and quality relying on an intervention that … randomized the entry of retail firms into 72 local markets in the context of a conditional cash transfer program. Six months …

We investigate the impact of access to convenience stores and competition between convenience store chains on medical … levels of inter-brand competition reduce the use and cost of outpatient medical services and prescription drugs, healthcare … utilization is more responsive to changes in competition. Since convenience stores in Taiwan are typically the healthier option …

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we … healthfulness of household consumption responds minimally to improvements in local retail environments. Our results indicate that …

-guest rules can drive demand and supply to and from the platform, as a function of the local platform competition between Airbnb … and VRBO. Our results suggest that platform competition sometimes dampens a platform wide pro-guest rule and sometimes … reinforces it, often with heterogeneous effects on different hosts. This implies that platform competition does not necessarily …

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

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 …

vary as their costs change. Yet, there is no restructured electricity market in which most retail customers can be charged …