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Germany excercise market power was not empirically supported despite high national and regional concentration rates in the … gasoline retail market. However, a further concentration of gas stations might lead to a change of the results in the future.  …
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operating in the short run under systematically varied concentration and capacity conditions. The pricing of electricity is …
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job capacity, job concentration, and market power. Job capacity is measured by the ratio of potential job openings to … potential work offers, and job concentration is measured by the ratio of work suppliers to employers. For each experimental … behaviors over time. The main finding is that job capacity consistently trumps job concentration when it comes to predicting the …
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We derive a dynamic structural model based on a dynamic supergame model and measure market power for the Dallas-Forth Worth milk market in the U.S. In particular, we analyze the cyclical behavior of firm conduct and evaluate bias in static market-power measures in a unified manner by deriving...
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From 1980-2009 the Polish economy experienced structural dislocation. The growth and success of the Solidarity movement represented the shift in manufacturing from Soviet bloc trade to membership in the European Union. This paper examines four independent metrics that measure the changing...
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Poland has historically demonstrated exceptional resiliency in the face of change. This paper examines how Poland coped with huge structural realignments from the rise of Solidarity until the present, seeking to provide an objective analysis of Poland’s evolution of trade structures while it...
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The lack of available prices in the Dutch life insurance industry makes competition an elusive concept that defies direct observation. Therefore, this paper investigates competition by analysing several factors which may affect the competitive nature of a market and various indirect measurement...
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This paper investigates competition in the Dutch non-life insurance industry indirectly by measuring scale economies and X-inefficiency, assuming that strong competition would force insurance firms to exploit unused scale economies and to push down inefficiencies. We observe substantial...
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Industry concentration and markups in the US have been rising over the last 3- 4 decades. However, the causes remain … (large) firms. Regulation driven increase in concentration is associated with lower elasticity of entry with respect to Tobin …
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quot;Taking Stockquot; explores the place of newspaper journalism in the publicly traded newspaper companies. It does so through an analysis at the level of the firm and the organization of the publicly held business entity and its subsidiaries, analyzing financial operations, organization and...
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