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Personnel policy and employment : essays in empirical labor economics

Bossler, Mario - 2015

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Product market reforms and unemployment in Europe

Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001

In this paper we study how promoting product market competition by reducing mark-ups or by increasing productivity are able to complement labor market reforms. We use a simple general equilibrium model with different types of labor. The bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms...

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The impact of the internet on retail competition : evidence from technological differences in internet access

Gebhardt, Georg - 2010

retailing sectors, electronics (price competition), books (no price competition), and food (no online sales), to identify the …

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Collusive upward gasoline price movements in medium-sized German cities

Neukirch, Arne; Wein, Thomas - 2016

Do we have effective competition between the gasoline's big five oligopolists (Aral, Shell, Esso, Total and Jet) and fringe gasoline stations? Using 2014 Market Transparency price data from 66 cities with populations between 60,000 and 100,000, we analyze which brands lead price increases, the...

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Markups and inflation in oligopolistic markets : evidence from wholesale price data

Alexander, Patrick; Han, Lu; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy; Tomlin, Ben - 2024 - Last updated: May 28, 2024

We study how the interaction of market power and nominal price rigidity influences inflation dynamics. We formulate a tractable model of oligopolistic competition and sticky prices and derive closed-form expressions for the pass-through of idiosyncratic and common cost shocks to firms' prices....

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Heterogeneous pass-through over space and time : the case of Germany's fuel tax discount

Frondel, Manuel; Thiel, Patrick; Vance, Colin - 2024

Exploiting exogenous variation in retail fuel prices from a temporary fuel tax discount in Germany, we estimate how the pass-through of the discount varies over space and time. We draw on daily gasoline prices of virtually all gas stations in Germany and neighboring France, with France serving...

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Inflation targeting and product market deregulation

Moretti, Laura - 2012

I evaluate the effect of inflation targeting on inflation and how it interacts with product market deregulation during … market deregulation, the effect of inflation targeting is quantitatively important and statistically significant. Moreover …, product market deregulation also matters in particular in countries that adopted an inflation targeting regime. I propose a …

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International trade and retailing : diversity versus accessibility and the creation of "retail deserts"

Eckel, Carsten (contributor) - 2007

in retailing and leads to a consolidation in this industry. As a consequence, surviving retailers have larger catchment … areas and consumers have to travel longer distances for their errands. These adjustments in retailing create a trade … ; retailing ; diversity ; accessibility ; retail deserts …

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Market power and heterogeneous pass-through in German electricity retail

Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian - 2016

We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007 to 2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%, which significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have...

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Inflation and economic activity in a multiple matching model of money

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