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Price discrimination and free-entry markets: the case of gasoline

J. Wilson Mixon, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1987 - 
- Vol. 26, Iss: 1, pp 1-7
TLDR
In this article, Borenstein has demonstrated the compatibility of monopolistic competition and price discrimination and applied this model to an industry that is often cited as the epitome of monopoly competition, namely retail gasoline.
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This article is published in Applied Energy.The article was published on 1987-01-01. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Monopolistic competition & Price discrimination.

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A guide to the pitfalls of identifying price discrimination

TL;DR: In this article, plausible cost-based explanations exist for what are commonly perceived to be cases of price discrimination, such as the price spreads of retail gasoline products, the "high" price of dinners at restaurants, the “high” price of popcorn at movie theaters, and the fact that airline ticket prices vary with how long the ticket is purchased before the flight's departure.
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Effects of hydrogen and methane addition on combustion characteristics, emissions, and performance of a CI engine

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of energy content modification of hydrogen+methane gas fuel on engine performance, emissions, and combustion are observed, and the diesel combustion characteristic of the engine was converted into gasoline combustion with the addition of 75% hydrogen + methane.
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Asymmetric dependence structure between emissions allowances and wholesale diesel/gasoline prices in emerging China's emissions trading scheme pilots

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the co-movement and dependence structure between China's emissions allowances and wholesale diesel (gasoline) markets using a GARCH-copula with a generalized error distribution (GED).
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Puzzles: Penny Stocks, Discount Brokers, Better Bidding, and More

TL;DR: Nalebuff as mentioned in this paper presented economic puzzles to stimulate research; others offer examples that will help undergraduate and graduate teaching; and all should provide quality distractions during seminars, including Fischer Black problems in finance and dot games from Richard Zeckhauser.

Penny Stocks, Discount Brokers, Better Bidding, and More

TL;DR: Nalebuff as discussed by the authors presented economic puzzles to stimulate research; others offer examples that will help undergraduate and graduate teaching; and all should provide quality distractions during seminars, including Fischer Black problems in finance and dot games from Richard Zeckhauser.
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Elements of Econometrics.

TL;DR: The Elements of Econometrics as mentioned in this paper is a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and master's degree courses and may usefully serve as a supplement for traditional Ph.D. courses in economics.
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Elements of econometrics

Jan Kmenta
TL;DR: The emphasis is on simplification whenever possible, assuming the readers know college algebra and basic calculus, and Jan Kmenta explains all methods within the simplest framework, and generalizations are presented as logical extensions of simple cases.
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Price discrimination in free-entry markets

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate price discrimination in free-entry, zero-profit markets and show that when brands are heterogeneous, competition does not prevent discrimination and that the power to earn economic profits is not necessary for a firm to maintain discriminatory prices.
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