Publication: Using individual-level randomized treatment to learn about market structure
Date
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Date
2022
Journal Article
Published version
Abstract
Abstract
Abstract
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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Volume
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14
Number
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4
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58
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90
Item Type
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Journal Article
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Keywords
General economics, econometrics and finance
Scope
Scope
Scope
Discipline-based scholarship (basic research)
Language
Language
Language
English
Publication date
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Publication date
2022-10-01
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2022-10-06
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1945-7790
OA Status
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Green
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merlin-id:22802
Green Open Access
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