Barriers to Retail Competition and Prices : Evidence From Spain /

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 se...

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Autor principal: Hoffmaister, Willy
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/231
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