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the information structure, the mode of competition, and the degree of product differentiation. Moreover, in our experiment …
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Despite the efforts of restructuring power markets over the last decades, the lack of demand response in the retail electricity markets remains a significant concern. Possible demand response would help to reduce prices and volatility by better matching supply and demand through improved price...
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We conducted a laboratory experiment to study the price setting behavior in two-sided markets. We seek to answer two specific research questions: Do participants charge the equilibrium prices that can be derived from a theoretical model? How is the price setting affected by the characteristics...
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I study consumers' choices in the retail electricity market. By conducting a largescale survey experiment with 3% of the Danish working-age population, I have gathered data on respondents' factual knowledge of the retail electricity market, their beliefs, preferences, and intentions to switch...
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This paper presents new evidence on the question: Why don’t consumers switch electricity contracts? By conducting a large-scale survey experiment with 3% of the Danish working-age population, I have gathered data on respondents’ factual knowledge of the retail electricity market, their...
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effects on product market competition. We test their model in a duopoly experiment under both, Bertrand and Cournot … competition. We find that leverage has strategic effects, but those effects are much weaker than predicted by theory. Specifically …, we find for price competition a general tendency towards collusion, which has the same overall consequences - but …
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With this research we examine whether observing firm-specific production levels leads to a less competitive market outcome. We consider an endogenous information setting where firms can freely decide whether they want to share information about their past production levels. By voluntarily...
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defined insurance and non-insurance markets based on the initial loss size, we develop theory to show that insurers with buyer … power have incentives to create insurance markets. Insurer competition will push their profits to zero but markets do not … our theory and find support. Monopolistic insurer-subjects in non-insurance markets increase loss sizes to establish …
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defined insurance and non-insurance markets based on the initial loss size, we develop theory to show that insurers with buyer … power have incentives to create insurance markets. Insurer competition will push their profits to zero but markets do not … our theory and find support. Monopolistic insurer-subjects in non-insurance markets increase loss sizes to establish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936210