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MARKET COMPETITION AND METROPOLITAN-AREA GROCERY PRICES
Binkley, James K.; Connor, John M. - 1996
This paper examines the relationship of 1987 retail grocery prices to supermarket sales concentration across 95 U.S. metropolitan areas. The regression model incorporates a large number of population, retail-cost, and retail competition factors and separate prices by type of grocery item. We...
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14.271 Industrial Organization I, Fall 2001
Ellison, Glenn; Ellison, Sara Fisher - 2001
core issues in antitrust. Topics include: the organization of the firm, monopoly, price discrimination, oligopoly, and …. The course presumes that students have a familiarity with micro theory, basic game theory and some econometrics. …
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Investment Strategies under Uncertainty: Theory and evidence of preemption in case of geographical market entrance
Karoly, Andrea - 2007
.Extending the duopoly model to the oligopoly case the results present that each additional competitor delays the first market … profitability on the optimal market entry timing and firm values. The duopoly model shows the existence of three types of … that continuation may disappear in some subgames of the market entry game in an oligopoly as a result of which no closed …
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Essays in empirical industrial economics
Zulehner, Christine - 2001
This thesis consists of two parts, which are connected by an introduction on auction and oligopoly markets and a short …
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Four Essays in Insurance
Sonnenholzner, Michael - 2005
This thesis contains four essays which are all from the broader field of insurance economics. The chapters can be read independently, although there is a certain connection between the articles. Chapter 2, which deals with moral hazard, and chapter 3, which is on oligopolistic models in the...
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On singular control games : with applications to capital accumulation
Steg, Jan-Henrik - 2010
The aim of this work is to establish a mathematically precise framework for studying games of capital accumulation under uncertainty. Such games arise as a natural extension from different perspectives that all lead to singular control exercised by the agents, which induces some essential...
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Essays on Privacy, Information, and Anonymous Transactions
Wagman, Liad - 2009
This dissertation uses game theoretic models to examine the effects of agent anonymity on markets for goods and for information. In open, anonymous settings, such as the Internet, anonymity is relatively easy to obtain --- oftentimes another email address is sufficient. By becoming anonymous,...
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Matching Issues: An auction with externalities and unraveling matching markets
Ranger, Martin - 2005
This dissertation examines two problems that may arise in matching problems.The first two chapters deal with auctions for multiple units where bidders exhibitexternalities. The third chapter links risk aversion and information to unraveling inlabor markets.Auctions can lead to efficient...
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Three Essays on Vertical Product Differentiation: Exclusivity, Non-exclusivity and Advertising
Costantino, Cesar - 2004
Since Hotelling's (1929) seminal work, economists have tried to understand how product differentiation affects price competition. I study the product location decisions, on a vertical characteristic space, of two sets of horizontal competitors when the inputs supplied by the "upstream" set (the...
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Ein Modell zur Mikrosimulation des Spothandels von Strom auf der Basis eines Multi-Agenten-Systems
Scheidt, Maximilian - 2002
Die Liberalisierung der Elektrizitätsmärkte in Europa hat zu einem deutlichen Strukturwandel der Energiewirtschaft geführt; Überkapazitäten und Wettbewerbsdruck bewirkten eine erhebliche Umorientierung in den Energieversorgungsunternehmen. Durch die zunehmende Liquidität des kurzfristigen...
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