Opening Hours Decision and Competition in the Motor Vehicle Inspection Market

Osmis Habte ()
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Osmis Habte: Department of Economics, Lund University, Postal: Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Box 7082, S-220 07 Lund, Sweden, https://sites.google.com/view/osmisaredahabte/home

No 2017:20, Working Papers from Lund University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of competition on a firm's choice of opening hours in the motor vehicle inspection market. Competition affects the incentive inspection firms face when choosing opening hours, which influences the probability that consumers find service time that best matches their preferred time. We use 2SLS analyses to resolve the potential endogeneity of market entry decisions. Using a detailed monthly firm-level panel data for all inspection firms in Sweden, we find that increased competition, measured using both the number of firms in a geographic market and average distance to nearby competitors, leads to expanded opening hours. The probability that inspection firms offer services on weekends also increases with local competition.

Keywords: opening hours; competition; non-price competition; entry; motor vehicle inspection market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 L11 L84 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2017-12-22
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-com, nep-eur, nep-ind, nep-reg and nep-tre
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