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Flex cars and competition in fuel retail markets

Pessoa, João Paulo; Rezende, Leonardo; Assunção, … - In: International journal of industrial organization 63 (2019), pp. 145-184

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Price competition in product variety networks

Ushchev, Philip; Zenou, Yves - 2016

We develop a product-differentiated model where the product space is a network defined as a set of varieties (nodes) linked by their degrees of substitutability (edges). We also locate consumers into this network, so that the location of each consumer (node) corresponds to her "ideal" variety....

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Network Effects in Alternative Fuel Adoption: Empirical Analysis of the Market for Ethanol

Shriver, Scott K. - NET Institute - 2010

This paper investigates the importance of network effects in the demand for ethanol-compatible vehicles and the supply … of ethanol fuel retailers. An indirect network effect, or positive feedback loop, arises in this context due to spatially …-dependent complementarities in the availability of ethanol fuel and the installed base of ethanol-compatible vehicles. Marketers and social …

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Empirical Games of Market Entry and Spatial Competition in Retail Industries

Aguirregabiria, Victor - 2016

We survey the recent empirical literature on structural models of market entry and spatial competition in oligopoly retail industries. We start with the description of a framework that encompasses various models that have been estimated in empirical applications. We use this framework to discuss...

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Consumer myopia in vehicle purchases: evidence from a natural experiment

Gillingham, Kenneth; Houde, Sébastien; van Benthem, … - 2019

A central question in the analysis of fuel-economy policy is whether consumers are myopic with regards to future fuel costs. We provide the first evidence on consumer valuation of fuel economy from a natural experiment. We examine the short-run equilibrium effects of an exogenous restatement of...

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