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Price discrimination and market power in the international fertiliser market : empirical evidence for exports from Russia
Goretzki, Philipp; Perekhozhuk, Oleksandr; Glauben, Thomas - 2019
Purpose. In 2012, Russia became the world's second-largest exporter increasing its potash exports from 1996 to 2012 … market power in the international fertiliser market by Russia. The descriptive analysis shows that Russia plays an important … role in the export of nitrogen and potash on the world market and many importing destinations. Often Russia in addition to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107014
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Price discrimination and market power in the international fertiliser market: Empirical evidence for exports from Russia
Goretzki, Philipp; Perekhozhuk, Oleksandr; Glauben, Thomas - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics 5 (2019) 2, pp. 5-24
Purpose: In 2012, Russia became the world's second-largest exporter increasing its potash exports from 1996 to 2012 … market power in the international fertiliser market by Russia. The descriptive analysis shows that Russia plays an important … role in the export of nitrogen and potash on the world market and many importing destinations. Often Russia in addition to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101207
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Market Power in International Commodity Trade : The Case of Coffee
Igami, Mitsuru - 2015
This paper studies the impact of market power on international commodity prices. I use a standard oligopoly model and exploit historical variations in the structure of the international coffee bean market to assess the impact of a cartel treaty on coffee prices and its global welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039191
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Spatial differentiation and market power in input procurement : evidence from a structural model of the corn market
Jung, Jinho; Sesmero, Juan; Siebert, Ralph - 2020
We estimate the cost of transporting corn and the resulting degree of spatial differentiation among downstream firms that buy corn from upstream farmers and examine whether such differentiation softens competition enabling buyers to exert market power (defined as the ability to pay a price for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162628
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Market power and spatial price discrimination in the liquefied natural gas industry
Zahur, Nahim Bin - 2023
The liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry is characterized by systematic inter-regional price differentials, raising the question of whether sellers price discriminate. This paper measures market power in the LNG spot market and studies how market power influences pricing, trade and welfare. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048742
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Domestic market power in the international airline industry
Jong, Gjalt de; Behrens, Christiaan; Herk, H. van; … - 2016
We posit and empirically test the hypothesis that airlines are able to charge a fare premium in markets that originate in their domestic country relative to similar markets that originate in foreign countries. To this end, we focus on intercontinental one-stop air travel trips for which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583706
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Market Structure, Countervailing Power and Price Discrimination : The Case of Airports
Haskel, Jonathan - 2014
We study bargained input prices where up and downstream firms can choose alternative vertical partners. We apply our model to bargained airport landing fees where a number of interesting policy questions have arisen. For example, what is the impact of joint ownership of airports? Does airline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068916
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Strategic data sales to competing firms
Delbono, Flavio; Reggiani, Carlo; Sandrini, Luca - 2021
The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing. We study the incentives of a data broker to sell data about a segment of the market to three competing firms. The segment only includes a share of the consumers in the market around...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695129
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Information and Online Reviews
Loginova, Oksana; Mantovani, Andrea - 2015
Online review aggregators, such as TripAdvisor, HotelClub and OpenTable help consumers identify the products and services that best match their preferences. The goal of this study is to understand the impact of online review aggregators on firms and consumers. We adopt Salop's circular city...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011715856
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Exclusive data, price manipulation and market leadership
Gu, Yiquan; Madio, Leonardo; Reggiani, Carlo - 2019
The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data not only facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing but also alters firms' strategic incentives. We show that exclusive access to a list of consumers can provide incentives for a firm to endogenously assume the price leader's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104125