Semigroup theory and applications / edited by Philippe Clément... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNIBAS000011198
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York [etc.] : Marcel Dekker, c1989
• ISBN: 0-8247-8088-4
• Descrizione fisica: X, 454 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• Collana: Lecture notes in pure and applied mathematics ; 116
• Disciplina: 512.2
• Soggetti: Teoria dei gruppi
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Barriers to Retail Competition and Prices : : Evidence From Spain / / Willy Hoffmaister

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955021803321
• Autore: Hoffmaister Willy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006
• ISBN: 9786613827678; 9781462331635; 1462331637; 9781452739038; 145273903X; 9781283515221; 1283515229; 9781451909449; 1451909446
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (43 p.)
• Collana: IMF Working Papers
• Soggetti: Barriers to entry (Industrial organization) - Spain; Competition - Spain; Prices - Spain - Regional disparities; Retail trade - Spain; Competition; Consumer price indexes; Deflation; Econometric analysis; Econometrics & economic statistics; Econometrics; Finance; Finance: General; Financial markets; General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data); Inflation; Macroeconomics; Market Structure and Pricing: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection; Panel Data Models; Price indexes; Price Level; Prices; Spatio-temporal Models; Switching Regression Models; Threshold analysis; Threshold Regression Models; Truncated and Censored Models; Spain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "October 2006."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.37-39).
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. REGIONAL BARRIERS TO RETAIL COMPETITION IN SPAIN""; ""III. A COURNOT-NASH MODEL WITH BARRIERS TO ENTRY""; ""IV. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE""; ""V. CONCLUSION""
• Sommario/riassunto: Why do prices in Spain's regions fail to converge? The prime suspects for this puzzling result are differences in regional barriers to entry in retail distribution. This paper develops a Cournot-Nash model of imperfect competition to illustrate the effect of barriers on prices. A unique data set-derived from an extensive analysis of competition policies in Spain- provides evidence that barriers to entry increase regional prices. The evidence also suggests that, consistent with the model's predictions, barriers to entry raise prices up to a point, and thus indicate that barriers have a threshold effect on prices.