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The heterogeneous effects of entry on prices

Fischer, Kai; Martin, Simon; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp - 2023

We study the effect of entry on the price distribution in the German retail gasoline market. Exploiting more than 700 … entries over five years in an event study design, we find that entry causes a persistent first-order stochastic shift in the … to 12% of stations’ gross margins. Consumers with easy access to information on prices gain the most from entry. The …

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Pharmaceutical prices under regulation : tiered co-payments and reference pricing in Germany

Herr, Annika; Suppliet, Moritz - 2012

Many countries with national health care providers and health insurances regulate the market for pharmaceuticals to steer drug demand and to control expenses. For example, they introduce reference pricing or tiered co-payments to enhance drug substitution and competition. Since 2006, Germany...

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Higher prices, higher quality? : evidence from German nursing homes

Herr, Annika; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2016

Objectives: This study investigates the relationship between prices and quality of 7,400 German nursing homes controlling for income, nursing home density, demographics, labour market characteristics, and infrastructure at the regional level. Method: We use a cross section of public quality...

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Extra costs of integrity : pharmacy markups and generic substitution in Finland

Izhak, Olena - 2019

I evaluate how the probability of substitution of a prescribed drug in a pharmacy depends on the pharmacists' profits and patients' out of pocket costs. I use Finnish population-wide data covering all prescriptions of three popular antidepressants. I find that one euro increase in the total...

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Financial constraints and moral hazard : the case of franchising

Fan, Ying; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Lafontaine, Francine - 2013

collateralizable housing wealth in a region delays chains' entry into franchising by 0.28 years on average, 9 percent of the average …

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Financial constraints and moral hazard : the case of franchising

Fan, Ying; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Lafontaine, Francine - 2016

is associated with a delay in chains' entry into franchising by 0.33 years on average, or 10 percent of the average …

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Vertical bargaining and retail competition : what drives countervailing power?

Gaudin, Germain - 2015

This paper investigates the effects of mergers, entry, and exit in retail markets when input prices are negotiated …

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Vertical bargaining and retail competition : what drives countervailing power?

Gaudin, Germain - 2017

This paper investigates the effects of changes in retail market concentration when input prices are negotiated. Results are derived from a model of bilateral Nash-bargaining between upstream and downstream firms which allows for general forms of demand and retail competition. Whether...

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Simultaneous and sequential contributions to step-level public goods : one vs. two provision levels

Normann, Hans-Theo; Rau, Holger A. - 2014

In a step-level public-good experiment, we investigate how the order of moves (simultaneous vs. sequential) and the number of step levels (one vs. two) affects public-good provision in a two-player game. We find that the sequential order of moves significantly improves public-good provision and...

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Voluntary payments, privacy and social pressure on the internet : a natural field experiment

Regner, Tobias; Riener, Gerhard - 2012

The emergence of Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) business models as a successful alternative to conventional uniform pricing brings up new questions related to the task of pricing. We investigate the effect of a reduction of privacy on consumers' purchase decisions (whether to buy, and if so how much...

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