Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "market power"
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Asymmetric cost transmission and market power in retail gasoline markets
(DP SAM;08/2024, Working paper, 2024-05-30)Estimating non-linear autoregressive distributed lag models, we establish shortrun cost pass-through in the Swedish retail gasoline market. Our findings reveal a slower correction of disequilibrium error in volume-adjusted ... -
Competition and Price Discrimination in International Transportation
(DP SAM;06/2024, Working paper, 2024-05)This paper documents price discrimination by transport companies, revealing their market power. Larger shipments of similar products sharing a container receive lower prices. A trade model with non-linear pricing of ... -
Do bottlenecks generate market power? : an empirical study of the Norwegian electricity market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-12)The present study analyses the potential non-competitive effects of capacity restrictions – socalled bottlenecks - in the Norwegian electricity market. We specify a structural model, and econometrically identifies market ... -
Price patterns resulting from different producer behavior in spatial equilibrium
(Discussion paper;5/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)We are concerned with economic analyses of markets from the perspective of supporting a decision maker selling in the market. The competitive pressure and the price formation are central issues. The goal of this paper ... -
Water with power : market power and supply shortage in dry years
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-12)The purpose of this paper is to analyse how market power may affect the allocation of production between seasons (summer and winter) in a hydro power system with reservoirs and where inflow in winter is uncertain. We find ... -
When anti-dumping measures lead to increased market power : a case study of the European salmon market
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-12)In this paper we apply the Bresnahan-Lau (1982) model to test for market power in the European distribution of salmon. Utilising data at the import level, derived demand equations are specified rather then consumer demand. ...