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Market Power And Price Movements Over The Business Cycle

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  • Bart J. Wilson
  • Stanley S. Reynolds

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This paper develops and tests implications of an oligopoly‐pricing model. The model predicts that during a demand expansion, the short run competitive price is a pure strategy Nash equilibrium but in a recession, firms set prices above the competitive price. Thus, price markups over the competitive price are countercyclical. Prices set during a recession are more variable than prices set in expansions because firms employ mixed strategy pricing in recessions. The empirical analysis utilizes Hamilton's time series switching regime filter to test the predictions of the model. Fourteen out of fifteen industries have fluctuations consistent with this oligopoly‐pricing model.

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  • Bart J. Wilson & Stanley S. Reynolds, 2005. "Market Power And Price Movements Over The Business Cycle," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(2), pages 145-174, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jindec:v:53:y:2005:i:2:p:145-174
    DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-1821.2005.00250.x
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    10. Jose E. Gomez-Gonzalez & Sebastian Sanin-Restrepo & Cesar E. Tamayo & Oscar M. Valencia, 2023. "Bank market power and firm finance: evidence from bank and loan-level data," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 56(6), pages 4629-4660, December.
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