Germany's market transparency unit for fuels: Fostering collusion or competition?
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Keywords
retail gasoline; market transparency; price margin; competition;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2020-02-10 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-ENE-2020-02-10 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-IND-2020-02-10 (Industrial Organization)
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