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We provide a framework for empirical analysis of negotiated-price markets. Using mortgage market data and a search and negotiation model, we characterize the welfare impact of search frictions and quantify the role of search costs and brand loyalty for market power. Search frictions reduce...
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We investigate wholesale demand response to hourly price movements in the Ontario wholesale electricity market using … Supplier Index, which are utilized in a Cournot competition model to structurally estimate price elasticity of demand during … hit and natural gas prices plummeted) to measure the demand responses to irregular price movements and find that price …
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We consider a model of vertical competition where downstream firms (retailers) purchase an upstream input from a monopolist and are able to differentiate from each other in terms of quality. Our primary focus is to study the effects of introducing a large retailer, such as a Wal-Mart...
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residual demand approach advanced by Goldberg and Knetter (1999). The empirical evidence for the American destination market …
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the decentralized coordination mechanism inherent in all competitive markets. Coordinating supply and demand is not the … mechanism of this coordination is valuable for economic thinking and economic theory. However, the implications of the perfect … original economic theory of contestability defines very strict conditions for perfectly contestable markets, antitrust has …
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and the procedure used to estimate the demand model …
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Supplement is available at: "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3452506" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3452506Alliances of buyers to negotiate input prices with suppliers are commonplace. Using pre- and post-alliances data on household purchases of bottled water, I develop a structural model of bilateral...
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We study empirically the price effects of upstream cartels that sell through downstream retailers to final consumers. We focus on a German coffee producer cartel that colluded under two different regimes: (i) involving wholesale prices in 2003 and (ii) with additional resale price maintenance...
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application to sugar-sweetened beverage taxation. We estimate a detailed model of demand and supply for the UK drinks market …
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We examine welfare effects of real-time pricing in electricity markets. Before stochastic energy demand is known …, competitive retailers contract with final consumers who exogenously do not have real-time meters. After demand is realized, two … electricity generators compete in a uniform price auction to satisfy demand from retailers acting on behalf of subscribed …
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