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We find evidence that the law of one price (LOOP) holds more nearly for country pairs that are within geographic regions that for country pairs that are not.
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We study the effects of a change in some exogenous variable (the fixed cost or a parameter in the payoff functions) on the strategies played in a Symmetric Cournot Equilibrium with Free Entry (SCEFE). We also show that any observation on prices, profits and number of firms is compatible with the...
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of several pricing rules intended to promote entry into a network industry …
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Hotelling's conceptual framework is expanded to incorporate the effects of a backstop technology on the planning horizon of the suppliers of an exhaustible resource and its price and quantity trajectories. It is shown that in the non-trivial case, the presence of a backstop technology shortens...
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Exploring a variant of the model of Aghion and Bolton Yields the following results. When an incumbent seller is constrained to price linearly, an exclusionary vertical contract Pareto-dominates spot sales by smoothing prices across states of the world ( potential entrant does or does not appear).
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In this paper we present a general approach and methodology for modelling concentration dynamics on industrial level. The majority of research in this field has usually been focused on estimating adjustment models, where the speed of adjustment of actual level of concentration to the long-run...
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This introductory essay briefly summarizes the eleven empirical studies of price setting and price adjustment that are included in this special issue. The studies, which use data from several European countries, were conducted as part of the European Central Bank's Inflation Persistence Network.
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field experiment, we assess such impact of ESL by studying how it shapes retail pricing practices and outcomes. Our general … role in pricing. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first study to explore and quantify how ESL interacts with … retail strategy to affect retail pricing practices and retail outcomes. …
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The marketplace, along with its price system, is the single most important institution in a western‐style free enterprise economy. The ability of prices to adjust to changes in supply and demand conditions enables the market to function efficiently, and that ability lies behind the magical...
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This introductory essay briefly summarizes the 11 empirical studies of price setting and price adjustment that are included in this special issue. The studies, which use data from several European countries, were conducted as part of the European Central Bank's Inflation Persistence Network.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140552