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THE IMPACT OF UPSTREAM MERGERS ON RETAIL GASOLINE MARKETS


Category: Econometrics
EMPIRICAL INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
Monday 26th August 2002, 14:30 - 16:00, Room: 1.11
Session Chair(s): PFISTER Etienne , TEAM-CNRS-Université de Paris 1, FRANCE

Presenter(s): Manuszak, Mark

Co-Author(s): none

Keyword(s): differentiated products oligopoly, merger analysis, petroleum industry, Upstream and downstream competition

JEL(s): L13, L22, L49, L91

Abstract:

Recently, a number of mergers have occurred in the petroleum industry involving upstream firms that are imperfectly integrated into retail markets. To empirically evaluate the effects of such mergers, this paper proposes a structural model of supply and demand that reflects divisions between upstream producers and downstream retailers. A downstream model relating observed prices to downstream costs, wholesale prices and downstream mark-ups is combined with a model of upstream competition that relates wholesale prices and upstream costs to upstream mark-ups. The supply model is estimated along with a demand model reflecting downstream product differentiation using data from the Hawaiian islands in the early 1990s.


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