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offers especially when many consumers prefer comparable offers. This occurs after initial periods with strong competition and … leads to lower welfare for all consumers. In treatments where firms cannot monitor the competition, firms end up having to …
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competition. We find that leverage has strategic effects, but those effects are much weaker than predicted by theory. Specifically … effects on product market competition. We test their model in a duopoly experiment under both, Bertrand and Cournot …, we find for price competition a general tendency towards collusion, which has the same overall consequences - but …
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Based on a Salop model with regulated prices, we investigate quality provision behavior of competing hospitals before and after a merger. For this, we use a controlled laboratory experiment where subjects decide on the level of treatment quality as head of a hospital. We find that the...
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We conducted a laboratory experiment to study the price setting behavior in two-sided markets. We seek to answer two specific research questions: Do participants charge the equilibrium prices that can be derived from a theoretical model? How is the price setting affected by the characteristics...
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defined insurance and non-insurance markets based on the initial loss size, we develop theory to show that insurers with buyer … power have incentives to create insurance markets. Insurer competition will push their profits to zero but markets do not … our theory and find support. Monopolistic insurer-subjects in non-insurance markets increase loss sizes to establish …
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In the context of supply function competition with private information, we test in the laboratory whether, as predicted …
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In the context of supply function competition with private information, we test in the laboratory whether — as …
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die Teilnehmer über das Qualitätsniveau als eines von drei im Wettbewerb stehenden Krankenhäusern entscheiden. Wir …
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defined insurance and non-insurance markets based on the initial loss size, we develop theory to show that insurers with buyer … power have incentives to create insurance markets. Insurer competition will push their profits to zero but markets do not … our theory and find support. Monopolistic insurer-subjects in non-insurance markets increase loss sizes to establish …
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