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Using individual-level randomized treatment to learn about market structure

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2022
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Casaburi, L., & Reed, T. (2022). Using individual-level randomized treatment to learn about market structure. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(4), 58–90. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20200306

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Interference across competing firms in RCTs can be informative about market structure. An experiment that subsidizes a random subset of traders who buy cocoa from farmers in Sierra Leone illustrates this idea. Interpreting treatment-control differences in prices and quantities purchased from farmers through a model of Cournot competition reveals differentiation between traders is low. Combining this result with quasi-experimental variation in world prices shows that the number of traders competing is 50 percent higher than the number

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14

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4

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58

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90

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General economics, econometrics and finance

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Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)

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English

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2022-10-01

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2022-10-06

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1945-7790

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merlin-id:22802

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Casaburi, L., & Reed, T. (2022). Using individual-level randomized treatment to learn about market structure. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 14(4), 58–90. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20200306

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