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Commodity Price Pass-Through in Differentiated Retail Food Markets

Richards, Timothy J.; Allender, William J.; Pofahl, … - 2010

Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse. Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but...

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The impact of interbank and public debt markets on the competition for bank deposists

Pérez Montes, Carlos - 2013

El crecimiento de los tipos de interés pagados por la deuda pública española desde 2008 y la disrupción del mercado interbancario han generado preocupación por sus efectos sobre la competencia del mercado de depósitos bancarios en España. Combino un modelo logit anidado de la oferta de...

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Congestion and Market Structure in the Airline Industry

Ater, Itai - Stanford University - 2007

Empirical research on the relationship between market congestion and themarket competitive level largely falsifies the … on the level of congestion duringperiods in which passengers cross-connect to their final destinations.About 70% of hub ….Furthermore, based on a simple theoretical model, I am able to quantifythe potential time savings from eliminating congestion …

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Decomposing the Congestion Effect and the Cross-Platform Effect inTwo-Sided Networks: A Field Experiment

Tucker, Catherine; Zhang, Juanjuan - MIT Sloan School of Management; MIT Sloan School of … - 2008

hand, a strong rival presence may dissipate payoff (a'congestion effect'). On the other hand, a large number of rivals … congestion effect. However, when the number of sellers ispresented in isolation, its negative impact on entry is …

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Adaptation, Internalization and Environmental Damage

Abrego, Lisandro; Whalley, John - 2002

significance of these responses to congestion externalities, and argue that they need to be taken into account in designing … internalization instruments. We consider labor-leisure, regional labor mobility and house price responses to congestion externalities …

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The Incentive for Vertical Integration

Economides, Nicholas - NYU Stern School of Business - 2005

This paper evaluates the incentive of firms to vertically integrate in asimple 2X2 Bertrand model of two substitutes that are each comprised oftwo complementary components. It confirms that all prices fall as aresult of a vertical merger. Further, we find that, when the compositegoods are poor...

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Economic and Marketing Efficiency Among Corn Ethanol Plants

Sesmero, Juan P.; Perrin, Richard K.; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - 2011

We extend data envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency of a sample of ethanol plants into internal (technical and allocative) and boundary (marketing) sources. This decomposition allows us to evaluate the channels through which different plant characteristics affect plant...

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Economic and Marketing Efficiency Among Corn Ethanol Plants

Sesmero, Juan S.; Perrik, Richard K.; Fulginiti, Lilyan E. - 2011

In the corn ethanol industry, the ability of plants to obtain favorable prices through marketing decisions is considered important for their overall economic performance. Based on a panel of surveyed of ethanol plants we extend data envelopment analysis (DEA) to decompose the economic efficiency...

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A Careful Examination of the Live Nation-Ticketmaster Merger

Richman, Barak D.; Meese, Alan J. - 2009

authorities that vertical mergers rarely introduce competitive concerns and are usually driven by efficiency motivations. This …

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The Role of Information Technology in Alliances and Mergers.

Tafti, Ali R. - 2009

Theoretical Framework of Information Technology in Alliances and Mergers, describes the central themes of this dissertation … corporate alliances and mergers. This is followed by a theoretical essay, entitled Propositions on the Value of Flexible IT … derive particularly from collaborative corporate alliances or deeply integrative mergers. …

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