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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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Market power and spatial price discrimination in the liquefied natural gas industry

Zahur, Nahim Bin - 2023

The liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry is characterized by systematic inter-regional price differentials, raising the question of whether sellers price discriminate. This paper measures market power in the LNG spot market and studies how market power influences pricing, trade and welfare. I...

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Domestic market power in the international airline industry

Jong, Gjalt de; Behrens, Christiaan; Herk, H. van; … - 2016

We posit and empirically test the hypothesis that airlines are able to charge a fare premium in markets that originate in their domestic country relative to similar markets that originate in foreign countries. To this end, we focus on intercontinental one-stop air travel trips for which the...

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Market Structure, Countervailing Power and Price Discrimination : The Case of Airports

Haskel, Jonathan - 2014

We study bargained input prices where up and downstream firms can choose alternative vertical partners. We apply our model to bargained airport landing fees where a number of interesting policy questions have arisen. For example, what is the impact of joint ownership of airports? Does airline...

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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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