This paper analyzes the impact of a merger in the French supermarket industry on food prices.
Between 2005 and 2008, nineteen of the fifty states of the U.S. reformed the franchising process for cable television, significantly easing entry into local markets.
I study product diversity in the presence of search costs and groups of consumers.
This paper studies differential pricing by an upstream monopolist whose cost to supply the intermediate good differs across buyers in the downstream.
I study the role of minimum bid increments (MBI) in internet auctions using natural field experiment data from a Finnish online auction site Huuto.net.
Collusion has often been alleged in industries where long-lived capacity investments are important.
We explore the effects of asymmetries in capacity constraints on collusion where market demand is uncertain and where firms’ sales and prices are private information.