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This paper examines retail grocery price levels with a very large (unbalanced) panel of stores that operate in well-defined local markets. We explain price variation across grocery retailers by the concentration of wholesalers and retailers, and the market share of hypermarkets (and control for...
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We investigate the effect of a vertical merger on downstream firms' ability to collude in a repeated game framework. We show that a vertical merger has two main effects. On the one hand, it increases the total collusive profits, increasing the stakes of collusion. On the other hand, it creates...
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) model where firms are heterogeneous in terms of production capacities and individual cartel decisions are endogenized. The …
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communication. Using a repeated, asymmetric capacity constraint price game, we show that, in line with theory, a partial cartel is … sufficient to increase market prices for all firms. Moreover, we find that prices of cartel insiders and outsiders are not … necessarily on the same level what contradicts common theoretical predictions. This is because communication allows cartel members …
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are at least slightly differentiated, it is beneficial for firms to cooperate at the R&D stage, and form a cartel at the …
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The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of R&D cooperation on cartel formation in the product market … the incentives to create a cartel in the product market. …
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and higher costs. We examine Canada's alleged bread cartel and provide the first comprehensive analysis of hub …
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We investigate the possibility for two vertically related firms to at least partially collude on the wholesale price over an in.nite horizon to mitigate or eliminate the e¤ects of double marginalisation, thereby avoiding contracts which might not be enforceable. We characterise alternative...
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We investigate the relationship between market concentration and industry innovative effort within a familiar two-stage model of R&D race in which firms compete à la Cournot in the product market. With the help of numerical simulations, we show that such a setting is rich enough to generate...
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The model of perfect competition is one of the most famous, most important, and most misunderstood concepts in economics. Rather than aiming to be a full-blown model of real-world competitive markets, the perfect competition model isolates the decentralized coordination mechanism inherent in all...
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