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A model for the global crude oil market using a multi-pool MCP approach
Huppmann, Daniel; Holz, Franziska - 2009
-cooperative way. -- Crude oil ; market structure ; cartel ; pool market ; simulation model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003821875
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Endogenous price commitment, sticky and leadership pricing : evidence from the Italian petrol market
Andreoli Versbach, Patrick; Franck, Jens-Uwe - 2013
This article studies dynamic pricing strategies in the Italian gasoline market before and after the market leader unilaterally announced its commitment to adopt a sticky-pricing policy. Using daily Italian firm level prices and weekly average EU prices, we show that the effect of the new policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777053
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Actions Speak Louder than Words : econometric evidence to target tacit collusion in oligopolistic markets
Andreoli Versbach, Patrick; Franck, Jens-Uwe - 2013
Tacit collusion reduces welfare comparably to explicit collusion but remains mostly unaddressed by antitrust enforcement which greatly depends on evidence of explicit communication. We propose to target specific elements of firms' behavior that facilitate tacit collusion by providing...
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Vertical differentiation and collusion : cannibalization or proliferation?
Gabszewicz, Jean Jaskold; Marini, Marco A.; Tarola, Ornella - 2016
In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the assumption that some firms collude and control both the range of variants for sale and their corresponding prices, likewise a multiproduct firm. We analyse whether pruning...
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Collusive agreements in vertically differentiated markets
Marini, Marco A. - 2017
proliferating their products. It is shown that a selective pruning within the cartel always occurs. Moreover, by associating a … cooperative (or coalitional) stability of the whole industry cartel is the equidistance of firms’ products along the quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660599
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An Economic View of Corporate Social Impact
Allcott, Hunt; Montanari, Giovanni; Ozaltun, Bora; Tan, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The growing discussions of impact investing and stakeholder capitalism have increased interest in measuring companies' social impact. We conceptualize corporate social impact as the welfare loss that would be caused by a firm's exit. To illustrate, we quantify the social impacts of 74 firms in...
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Is cartelisation profitable? ; a case study of the Rhenish Westphalian Coal Syndicate, 1893-1913
Lübbers, Thorsten - 2009
precisely, we consider the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate, a coal cartel that operated in Imperial Germany in the late 19th … event study methodology to asses the reaction of the stock market to the foundation of the cartel and two major revisions of … data in a dynamic panel data framework. Overall, our results suggest that the investigated cartel had no significant effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003862293
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The effect of market power on electricity storage utilization : the case of pumped hydro storage in Germany
Schill, Wolf-Peter; Kemfert, Claudia - 2009
In this paper, we develop the game-theoretic electricity market model ElStorM that includes the possibility of strategic electricity storage. We apply the model to the German electricity market and analyze different realistic and counterfactual cases of strategic and non-strategic pumped hydro...
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Delays in leniency application : is there really a race to the enforcer’s door?
Gärtner, Dennis; Zhou, Jun - 2012 - First version June 2012, Revised November 2012
common beliefs and the existing literature, that conspirators often apply for leniency long after a cartel collapses. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685867
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Corporate social responsibility by joint agreement
Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Treuren, Leonard - 2021
Industry-wide voluntary agreements are touted as a means for corporations to take more corporate social responsibility (CSR). We study what type of joint CSR agreement induces firms to increase CSR efforts in a model of oligopolistic competition with differentiated products. Consumers have a...
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