; price ; district heating ; Sweden … price regulation by conforming to customers' and authorities' expectations. It is argued that utilities can meet …' price setting schemes are insensitive to customer complaints, they are significantly influenced by the passive monitoring by …

We analyze price dispersion using panel data from a large price comparison site. We use past pricing behavior to … greater price adjustment costs result in greater price dispersion. Although the impact of price adjustment costs on price … dispersion became weaker over time, the causal effect of price adjustment costs on price dispersion is still present at the end …

Sweden. I find interesting differences and similarities in the firms’ strategies in terms of how they responded to these …

How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during … sector. In the 1990s, Sweden implemented a reform package that ignited a successful reorganization of a business sector that … of Sweden's reforms. We also discuss how the reform experience from a developed country such as Sweden can be useful for …

industrialization. Our empirical strategy focuses on the dynamics of price convergence and accounts for general equilibrium effects … process of market disintegration in 221 prefectures of Qing China. Comparing our results with those for grain price panels …

aims at minimizing expenses in which case, the equilibrium price of drugs is independent of the copayment rate. However …

natural policy experiment in Norway, to what extent the price responsiveness of prescription choices is affected when the … structural model for the three drugs, covering demand and price setting, is estimated in a joint maximum likelihood approach. We …

subjects are willing to pay at least the full per-unit price, with a substantial fraction willing to overpay. The optimal firm …