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Collusive Agreements in Vertically Differentiated Markets
Marini, Marco A. - 2017
proliferating their products. It is shown that a selective pruning within the cartel always occurs. Moreover, by associating a … cooperative (or coalitional) stability of the whole industry cartel is the equidistance of firms' products along the quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954129
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Unconventional Gas and the European Union : Prospects and Challenges for Competitiveness
Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - 2015
This article studies the likely impact of unconventional gas developments in the U.S. on EU competitiveness. We find, first of all, little evidence for a prosperous unconventional gas development in Europe. Second, the U.S. boom has already a strong impact on both world and European energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030220
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Mothballing in a Duopoly : Evidence from a (Shale) Oil Market
Comincioli, Nicola; Hagspiel, Verena; Kort, Peter M.; … - 2020
The mothballing option has been studied in the literature, but mainly in decision theoretic frameworks. This paper looks at it from a strategic point of view and applies it to an incumbent-entrant framework. In particular, based on the recent strategic interactions between OPEC and the shale oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090989
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The Impacts of Exogenous Oil Supply Shocks on Mediterranean Economies
Bastianin, Andrea - 2016
The security of energy supply is a key geopolitical factor in the relationship between the European Union and the southern neighborhood countries of the Middle East and North Africa region. We study the response of eight Mediterranean economies to exogenous oil supply shocks. We focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001020
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Modelling the Global Price of Oil : Is There Any Role for the Oil Futures-Spot Spread?
Valenti, Daniele - 2018
In this work, we propose an analysis of the global market for crude oil based on a revised version of the Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) model introduced by Kilian and Murphy (2014). On this respect, we replace the global proxy for above-ground crude oil inventories with the oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115111
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The External Cost of European Crude Oil Imports
Bigano, Andrea - 2009
This paper is the first to assess operational and probabilistic externalities of oil extraction and transportation to Europe on the basis of a comprehensive evaluation of realistic future oil demand-supply scenarios, of the relative relevance of import routes, of the local specificities in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013160215
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Vertical Differentiation and Collusion : Cannibalization or Proliferation?
Gabszewicz, Jean J. - 2016
In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the assumption that some firms collude and control both the range of variants for sale and their corresponding prices, likewise a multiproduct firm. We analyse whether pruning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997248
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Impact of Mergers on the Degree of Competition : Application to the Banking Industry
Cerasi, Vittoria - 2013
This paper analyses the relation between competition and concentration in a monopolistic competition model where banks compete in branching and interest rates and market structure is endogenous. The model is applied on individual bank data in Italy and France using a maximum likelihood approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094359
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Collusion in Quality-Segmented Markets
Bos, Iwan; Marini, Marco A. - 2021
. Within this setting, we study four types of price- xing agreement: (i) a segment-wide cartel in the premium submarket only …, (ii) a segment-wide cartel in the standard submarket only, (iii) two segment-wide cartels, and (iv) an industry …-wide cartel. We present a complete characterization of the collusive pricing equilibrium and examine the corresponding effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251142
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Carbon Capture; Transport and Storage in Europe : A Problematic Energy Bridge to Nowhere?
Herold, Johannes - 2013
This paper is a follow up of the SECURE-project, financed by the European Commission to study “Security of Energy Considering its Uncertainties, Risks and Economic Implications”. It addresses the perspectives of, and the obstacles to a CCTS-roll out, as stipulated in some of the scenarios....
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