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The parameterisation of energy and climate policies often depends on the technology, which is price-setting in electricity markets. We propose two simple approaches to determine marginal technologies in electricity wholesale from available data. Both approaches are complementary, computationally...
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We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know neither. We show that two types of signalling...
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We present an oligopoly model where a certain fraction of consumers engage in costly non-sequential search to discover …
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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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a multimarket oligopoly. The author shows that under oligopoly price discrimination, differences in competitive pressure …
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reconciled with principles of oligopoly theory. This article (1) presents a fundamental reconceptualization of our understanding …
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a multimarket oligopoly. The author shows that under oligopoly price discrimination, differences in competitive pressure …
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This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each area, we select the most relevant portions of...
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We run a market experiment where firms can choose not only their price but also whether to present comparable offers. They are faced with artificial demand from consumers who make mistakes when assessing the net value of products on the market. If some offers are comparable however, some...
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Within a simple model of homogeneous oligopoly, we show that the traditional ranking between Bertrand and Cournot …
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