Empirical studies of gasoline retailing: A guide to the literature

A Eckert - Journal of economic surveys, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper surveys the empirical literature on gasoline retailing, which has been growing
rapidly over the last three decades, possibly in response to antitrust and regulatory concerns …

Algorithmic pricing and competition: Empirical evidence from the German retail gasoline market

S Assad, R Clark, D Ershov… - Journal of Political …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We provide the first empirical analysis of the relationship between algorithmic pricing (AP)
and competition by studying the impact of adoption in Germany's retail gasoline market …

Contracting in space: An application of spatial statistics to discrete-choice models

J Pinkse, ME Slade - Journal of Econometrics, 1998 - Elsevier
We develop tests for spatial-error correlation and methods of estimation in the presence of
such correlation for discrete-choice models. The tests, which are based on the notion of a …

Learning to coordinate: A study in retail gasoline

DP Byrne, N De Roos - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
This paper studies equilibrium selection in the retail gasoline industry. We exploit a unique
dataset that contains the universe of station-level prices for an urban market for 15 years …

Collusive conduct in duopolies: multimarket contact and cross-ownership in the mobile telephone industry

PM Parker, LH Röller - The RAND Journal of Economics, 1997 - JSTOR
With the deregulation of the telecommunications industry, a variety of industry structures
have been created in hopes of increasing competition. One example is the licensing of …

Rules, communication, and collusion: Narrative evidence from the sugar institute case

D Genesove, WP Mullin - American Economic Review, 2001 - aeaweb.org
Detailed notes on weekly meetings of the sugar-refining cartel show how communication
helps firms collude, and so highlight the deficiencies in the current formal theory of collusion …

Pricing models in marketing

VR Rao - Handbooks in Operations Research and Management …, 1993 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter brings together a set of diverse efforts in the recent
literature on the modeling of price decisions and related questions in marketing. There has …

A variance screen for collusion

RM Abrantes-Metz, LM Froeb, J Geweke… - International Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
In this paper, we examine price movements over time around the collapse of a bid-rigging
conspiracy. While the mean decreased by 16%, the standard deviation increased by over …

Investigating the effects of store-brand introduction on retailer demand and pricing behavior

PK Chintagunta, A Bonfrer, I Song - Management Science, 2002 - pubsonline.informs.org
Researchers have recently been interested in studying the drivers of store-brand success as
well as factors that motivate retailers to introduce store brands. In this paper, we study the …

Asymmetric price adjustment and consumer search: An examination of the retail gasoline market

MS Lewis - Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This article proposes a new explanation for why retail prices respond more quickly to cost
increases than cost decreases. I develop a search model that assumes consumers' …