Replication data for: Who Benefits from Information Disclosure? The Case of Retail Gasoline
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Project Citation:
Luco, Fernando. Replication data for: Who Benefits from Information Disclosure? The Case of Retail Gasoline. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114367V1
Project Description
Summary:
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How does online price disclosure affect competition when both consumers and firms can use the disclosed information? This paper addresses this question exploiting the sequential implementation of an online price-disclosure policy in the Chilean retail gasoline industry. The results show that disclosure increased margins by 9 percent on average, though the effects varied across the country depending on the intensity of local search behavior. Because margins increased the least, and even decreased, in high-search areas, where income is also higher, the results also show that price disclosure policies may have important distributional effects.
Scope of Project
JEL Classification:
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D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
L11 Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
L71 Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Hydrocarbon Fuels
L81 Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Q35 Hydrocarbon Resources
Q41 Energy: Demand and Supply; Prices
D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
L11 Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
L71 Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Hydrocarbon Fuels
L81 Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
O13 Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
Q35 Hydrocarbon Resources
Q41 Energy: Demand and Supply; Prices
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