Price convergence in contestable market structures: The impact of time and price-caps on intercity telecommunications ratesReview of Industrial Organization - Tập 9 - Trang 813-822 - 1994
Yu Hsing, Franklin G. Mixon
In this study, we tested if long-distance rates among AT&T, MCI, and US Sprint between New York City and six major SMSAs during 1980–91 have converged. Empirical findings show that rates have converged over time, that rate ratios or differences increased under price cap, and that distance does not have any impact on rate convergence. The variables of TIME and price cap (CAP) have greater impacts o...... hiện toàn bộ
Electricity Merger Analysis: Market Screens, Market Definition, and Other LemmingsReview of Industrial Organization - Tập 32 - Trang 263-288 - 2008
Darren Bush
Much discussion and effort have been devoted to the use of market power screens to detect market power that might arise from existing generation asset portfolios or utility acquisition of new generation assets. The quest is to find the “Holy Grail”: a market power detection mechanism that minimizes the costs to all parties involved while finding the majority of market power exercises. This article...... hiện toàn bộ
Regulatory Change, Market Structure, and Fatalities: The Case of the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish FisheryReview of Industrial Organization - Tập 57 - Trang 1-26 - 2019
Sami Dakhlia, Akbar Marvasti
In fisheries, regime shifts from common-pool to tradable individual quota rights have led to a reduction in race-to-fish behavior—in particular under adverse weather conditions, and thus to a reduction in the rate of fatal injuries. At the same time, tradability of quota rights has led to some fleet consolidation, along with a shift to larger vessels, which may have also affected safety. We isolat...... hiện toàn bộ
Ocean Carriers’ Collusion Under Antitrust Immunity: Evidence of Asymmetric Pass-ThroughReview of Industrial Organization - Tập 45 - Trang 59-77 - 2014
Michael K. Fung
As fuel costs are the largest component of the shipping industry’s operating costs, this study examines whether ocean carriers pass fuel cost increases through to freight rates more quickly than they pass through fuel cost decreases. The focal price collusion theory suggests that such asymmetric pass-through could be a result of collusive behavior because collusion is easier to sustain when costs ...... hiện toàn bộ
A comment on Bradburd: “Privatisation of natural monopolies”Review of Industrial Organization - Tập 11 - Trang 869-882 - 1996
Johan Willner
In a recent issue of this journal, Ralph Bradburd (1995) argues that the efficiency gains of privatising a natural monopoly are likely to outweigh any loss of allocative efficiency. However, a trade-off based on a definition of the total surplus which includes profits but not internal rents is flawed. Correcting the analysis shows that even stronger conditions have to be met before privatising a n...... hiện toàn bộ
The Impact of Timing on Bidding Behavior in Procurement Auctions of Contracts with Private CostsReview of Industrial Organization - Tập 42 - Trang 321-343 - 2012
Dakshina G. De Silva, Georgia Kosmopoulou, Beatrice Pagel, Ronald Peeters
We provide a comparison of bidding behavior between multi-round and single-round auctions considering bid lettings for asphalt construction contracts that are known to have primarily private costs. Using a reduced-form difference-in-difference approach as well as the nonparametric estimation technique that was proposed by Racine and Li (J Econom 119(1):99–130, 2004) we find that bidding is more ag...... hiện toàn bộ