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Price discrimination and market power in the international fertiliser market : empirical evidence for exports from Russia
Goretzki, Philipp; Perekhozhuk, Oleksandr; Glauben, Thomas - 2019
Purpose. In 2012, Russia became the world's second-largest exporter increasing its potash exports from 1996 to 2012 … market power in the international fertiliser market by Russia. The descriptive analysis shows that Russia plays an important … role in the export of nitrogen and potash on the world market and many importing destinations. Often Russia in addition to …
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Spatial differentiation and market power in input procurement : evidence from a structural model of the corn market
Jung, Jinho; Sesmero, Juan; Siebert, Ralph - 2020
We estimate the cost of transporting corn and the resulting degree of spatial differentiation among downstream firms that buy corn from upstream farmers and examine whether such differentiation softens competition enabling buyers to exert market power (defined as the ability to pay a price for...
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Strategic data sales to competing firms
Delbono, Flavio; Reggiani, Carlo; Sandrini, Luca - 2021
The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing. We study the incentives of a data broker to sell data about a segment of the market to three competing firms. The segment only includes a share of the consumers in the market around...
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Exclusive data, price manipulation and market leadership
Gu, Yiquan; Madio, Leonardo; Reggiani, Carlo - 2019
The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data not only facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing but also alters firms' strategic incentives. We show that exclusive access to a list of consumers can provide incentives for a firm to endogenously assume the price leader's...
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Market liberalization : price dispersion, price discrimination and consumer search in the German electricity markets
Gugler, Klaus; Heim, Sven; Janssen, Maarten C. W.; … - 2018
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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The effects of personal information on competition : consumer privacy and partial price discrimination
Clavorà Braulin, Francesco - 2021
This article studies the effects of consumer information on the intensity of competition. In a two dimensional duopoly model of horizontal product differentiation, firms use consumer information to price discriminate. I contrast a full privacy and a no privacy benchmark with intermediate regimes...
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Information and Online Reviews
Loginova, Oksana; Mantovani, Andrea - 2015
Online review aggregators, such as TripAdvisor, HotelClub and OpenTable help consumers identify the products and services that best match their preferences. The goal of this study is to understand the impact of online review aggregators on firms and consumers. We adopt Salop's circular city...
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A Comment on 'Cross-Border Merger, Vertical Structure, and Spatial Competition'
Eleftheriou, Konstantinos - 2016
The aim of this paper is to revise and correct the results obtained in Beladi et al. [Beladi, H., Chakrabarti, A., Marjit, S., 2010. Cross-border merger, vertical structure, and spatial competition. Economics Letters 109, 112-114]. Specifically, we prove that the Nash equilibrium locations of...
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Income inequality and export prices across countries
Flach, Lisandra; Janeba, Eckhard - 2013
This paper provides first firm-level evidence of the links between income inequality and the patterns of trade and export prices. We identify a theoretical mechanism behind these links, which suggests that a more unequal income distribution leads to higher average prices. We test the theory...
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Multi-Product Firms and Product Quality
Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2017
We examine the global operations of multi-product firms. We present a flexible heterogeneous-firm trade model with either limited or strong scope for quality differentiation. Using customs data for China during 2002-2006, we empirically establish that firms allocate activity across products in...
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