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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18927| Title: | Market concentration and product variety under spatial competition : evidence from retail gasoline |
| Keywords: | L11 L90 L13 ddc:330 spatial product differentiation retail gasoline mergers concentration Produktdifferenzierung Räumlicher Wettbewerb Fusion Wirtschaftskonzentration Tankstelle Theorie Österreich |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| Description: | We show that for a spatially differentiated economy reduced product variety is the likely outcome of mergers except in cases where exit costs in relation to (outlet-specific) fixed costs are high. Our empirical analysis of the Austrian retail gasoline market confirms that increases in concentration reduce product variety. Ignoring this product variety effect is likely to lead to an underestimate of market power in structural merger analysis. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18927 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18927 ppn:471200581 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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