A measure of market imperfection by frontier analysis

Michel Mouchart and Marie Vandresse

No 2003092, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: In this paper, we propose an empirical method to measure the market imperfection and the bargaining power of the agents, by extending the methods of frontier analysis. A case study in the field of freight transport illustrates the proposed method.

Keywords: frontier analysis; supply and demand bid functions; imperfect competition; bargaining power (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 D49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-12
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