Showing 81 - 90 of 49,083
We study changes in markups across 72 product markets from 2006 to 2018. A growing literature has documented a rise in … product markets. We find that changes in firms’ marginal costs and households’ price sensitivity are the primary drivers of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348639
La concentration industrielle n'a cessé d'augmenter ces vingt dernières années. Cette concentration est présente autant chez les producteurs que chez les distributeurs. Par conséquent, analyser le pouvoir de marché est devenu primordial. La mesure du pouvoir de marché nécessite l'analyse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827739
In models of strategic interaction, there may be important order of entry effects if one player can credibly commit to an action (e.g., entry) before other players. If one estimates a simultaneous-move model, then the move-order effects will be confounded with the payoffs. This paper considers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010797483
' components into its own product, make its product less dependent on other firms providing complementary components. When one of … two firms expands its product boundary by incorporating the other firm's function into its own product, we find that the … firm's expansion of the product boundary may increase not only its own profits, but also the other firm's profits and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028561
We study changes in markups across 72 product markets from 2006 to 2018. A growing literature has documented a rise in … product markets. We find that changes in firms' marginal costs and households' price sensitivity are the primary drivers of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287331
How does the choice to regulate a market take place? And how does regulation influence market outcome? We argue that to explicitly model the simultaneity between these two issues makes a qualitative difference in the analysis of the role of regulation, and empirically test our model in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278032
Game-theoretic models are frequently employed to study strategic interaction between agents. Empirical research has focused on estimating payoff functions while maintaining strong assumptions regarding the information structure of the game. I show how to relax informational assumptions to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124114
Using a micro-level dataset of Danish and German wind turbine installations, we estimate a structural oligopoly model with cross-border trade and heterogeneous firms. Our approach allows us to separately identify border-related variable costs from distance-related variable costs, and to put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067553
to biased estimation of demand elasticities. We simulate a merger between American and US Airways and find that product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855528
wholesale prices. Note that in the stores and product categories that we analyze, the two manufacturers own the dominant brands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124592