From 2002 to 2006, German wholesale electricity prices more than doubled. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the … price components in 2006 in order to identify the factors responsible for the increase. We develop a competitive benchmark … every hour in 2006. We find that prices at the German wholesale market (EEX) are above competitive levels for a large …

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

gasoline market. Transparent environments enable easy price comparisons and match findings. Restricting transparency such that …

To increase competition in the retail market for gasoline, Germany's Federal Cartel Office established the so … fixed effect methods and a difference-in-difference approach, this study investigates the impact of the MTU on the price … margins of gas stations. We find that the MTU fostered a more intense competition, with a reduction in price margins of 1 …

Most of the literature on retail fuel markets find high-frequency and asymmetric price cycles. This is typically … explained by the model of Edgeworth price cycles. A key element of this model is that prices fall to marginal costs during a …