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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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Product differentiation is well established as being the key source of the cereal industry's high price-cost margins. However, there is little consensus as to whether pricing collusion is also a source of profitability, and indeed, whether price even serves as a strategic variable in this...
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Standard methods for calculating cartel-damages rely on data of prices charged and quantity sold. Such data may not … easily be available. In this paper, it is shown that a lower bound for cartel-damages can also be computed from accounting … is shown under which econometrically testable assumptions on accounting costs a meaningful lower bound for cartel damages …
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. Estimating the impact of such collusive practices" - known as the 'lysine strategy profile (LSP)" - on cartel duration is … related to cartel duration. After correction for selectivity in the decision to use the LSP, statistical tests are consistent … with a theoretic prediction that the LSP increases cartel duration. …
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cement producers to study the value of such transaction data for an estimation of cartel damages. In particular, we … investigate, first, how structural break analysis can be used to identify the exact end of the cartel agreement and, second, how … conclude that transaction data allows such a detailed assessment of the cartel and its impact on direct customers that its …
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