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Grocery retailing is undergoing rapid changes. New store formats and market channels, the entry of additional large players, and increasing multichannel activities on the supply side are accompanied by heterogeneous and changing consumer preferences. Retailers are increasingly competing in both...
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We use consumer panel data to calculate the damage suffered by German consumers due to a detergent cartel that was … the period from July 2004 until March 2005. Under the assumptions that the cartel-induced share on turnover is … representative for the entire cartel period and all affected markets, the overall consumer damage would even sum up to about 315 …
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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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We examine the relation between consumer search and equilibrium prices when collusion is endogenously determined. We develop a theoretical model and show that average price is a U-shaped function of the measure of searchers: prices are highest when there are no searchers (local monopoly power)...
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Vermehrt übernehmen Algorithmen die Preissetzung für Unternehmen. Doch wie wirkt es sich auf die Dynamiken der Märkte aus, wenn nicht mehr ausschließlich Menschen das Wettbewerbsverhalten bestimmen? Welche Risiken gibt es und bedarf es einer Anpassung des Kartellrechts? Der Autor setzt sich...
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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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