electricity retail markets. Consumers observe the baseline price of the incumbent and decide whether or not to search. Incumbent … providers can price discriminate between searching and loyal consumers. Empirically we show that local incumbents increase their … baseline rate while entrants decrease their tariffs if consumer search increases. Moreover, the incumbent price discriminates …

with this contract type we follow the Limit Pricing theory and show that standard contract price could be used as an … instrument to affect competition, in terms of market entries, in the related market. We theoretically derive the optimal price …-setting behavior of a price-discriminating incumbent provider and show that under particular circumstances reducing the standard …

cement producers to study the value of such transaction data for an estimation of cartel damages. In particular, we … an application of before-and-after approaches to estimate the price overcharge can benefit from such rich data sets. We …

We use publicly available price data from the German cement industry to estimate the cartelinduced price increase. We …-cartel period on the overcharge estimate. We find that the cement cartel led to price overcharges in a range from 20.3 to 26 …

This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step … display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …

with a theorem: that asymmetric price transmission is sustained up to a certain maximum level which might include the …