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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 …
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Rules of Origin and Market Power
Chung, Wanyu; Perroni, Carlo - 2020
We study how domestic content requirements in Free Trade Areas (FTAs) affect market power and market structure in concentrated intermediate goods markets. We show that content requirements increase oligopolistic markups beyond the level that would obtain under an equivalent import tariff, and we...
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Market liberalization: Price dispersion, price discrimination and consumer search in the German electricity markets
Gugler, Klaus; Heim, Sven; Janssen, Maarten C. W.; … - 2018
We study how consumer search affects pricing in markets with incumbents and entrants using panel data on German 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...
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The effects of personal information on competition: Consumer privacy and partial price discrimination
Clavorà Braulin, Francesco - 2021
This article studies the effects of consumer information on the intensity of competition. In a two dimensional duopoly model of horizontal product differentiation, firms use consumer information to price discriminate. I contrast a full privacy and a no privacy benchmark with intermediate regimes...
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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...
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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...
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Do pay-as-bid auctions favor collusion? Evidence from Germany's market for reserve power
Heim, Sven; Goetz, Georg - 2013
We analyze a drastic price increase in the German auction market for reserve power, which did not appear to be driven by increased costs. Studying the market structure and individual bidding strategies, we find evidence for collusive behavior in an environment with repeated auctions, pivotal...
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Do pay-as-bid auctions favor collusion? Evidence from Germany's market for reserve power
Heim, Sven; Götz, Georg - 2013
We analyze a drastic price increase in the German auction market for reserve power, which did not appear to be driven by increased costs. Studying the market structure and individual bidding strategies, we find evidence for collusive behavior in an environment with repeated auctions, pivotal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313122
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Real-time Pricing in Power Markets: Who Gains?
Boom, Anette; Schwenen, Sebastian - 2013
We examine welfare e ffects of real-time pricing in electricity markets. Before stochastic energy demand is known, competitive retailers contract with final consumers who exogenously do not have real-time meters. After demand is realized, two electricity generators compete in a uniform price...
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Drivers of article processing charges in open access
Budzinski, Oliver; Grebel, Thomas; Wolling, Jens; … - 2019
Large publishing companies have been dominating scientific publishing for long, which leads to high subscription fees and inhibited access to scientific knowledge. At digital era, the opportunity of an unrestricted access appears feasible, because the cost of publishing should be low. It is no...
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