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Do pay-as-bid auctions favor collusion? : evidence from Germany’s market for reserve power

Heim, Sven; Goetz, Georg - 2013

We analyze a drastic price increase in the German auction market for reserve power, which did not appear to be driven by increased costs. Studying the market structure and individual bidding strategies, we find evidence for collusive behavior in an environment with repeated auctions, pivotal...

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Do pay-as-bid auctions favor collusion? : evidence from Germany's market for reserve power

Heim, Sven; Goetz, Georg - 2013

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Do Pay-as-Bid Auctions Favor Collusion? Evidence from Germany's Market for Reserve Power

Heim, Sven - 2013

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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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Giving the German Cartel Office the Power of Divestiture - The Conformity of the Reform with Constitutional Law

Engel, Christoph - 2008

German cartel office power to divest dominant firms or oligopolies if this is necessary to restore competition. The paper … main effect would be through bargaining between the divested company and the cartel office. This poses problems under rule …

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Der KMD-Kartellcheck : Marktscreening nach Kartellstrukturen am Beispiel des deutschen Zementmarkts

Lorenz, Christian - 2005

analysis and investigates whether they operate efficiently. The CFD cartel-audit should enable the detection of cartels via … patterns. The CFD cartel-audit attempts to draw conclusions from these patterns in order to find hidden cartels and to engage … antitrust agencies inot additional more detailed audits. -- cartel ; collusion ; price fixing ; collusive marker ; cartel audit …

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Der KMD-Kartellcheck : Marktscreening nach Kartellstrukturen am Beispiel des deutschen Zementmarkts

Lorenz, Christian - 2005

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Algorithmic pricing and competition : empirical evidence from the German retail gasoline market

Assad, Stephanie; Clark, Robert; Ershov, Daniel; Xu, Lei - 2020

Economic theory provides ambiguous and conflicting predictions about the association between algorithmic pricing and competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany's retail gasoline market where algorithmic-pricing software became widely...

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Algorithmic pricing and competition : empirical evidence from the German retail gasoline market

Assad, Stephanie; Clark, Robert; Ershov, Daniel; Xu, Lei - 2020

Economic theory provides ambiguous and conflicting predictions about the association between algorithmic pricing and competition. In this paper we provide the first empirical analysis of this relationship. We study Germany’s retail gasoline market where algorithmic-pricing software became...

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Germany's market transparency unit for fuels : fostering collusion or competition?

Horvath, Marco - 2019

To increase competition in the retail market for gasoline, Germany's Federal Cartel Office established the so …

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