Revisiting the importance of border effect in sub‐national regions. Evidence from a quasi‐experimental design

Balaguer, Jacint; Ripollés, Jordi

doi:10.1111/pirs.12298

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“…A summary of the regional tax rates prevailing during the sample period is given in TableB1from Appendix B.13 This implies an approximate travel distance of 4 and 10 kilometers in urban and interurban roads with speed limits of 50 and 120 km/h, respectively. It is quite consistent with the result obtained by the circular approach followed inBalaguer and Ripollés (2018b).…”

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High temperature heat pump integration into district heating network

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Sawalha

Mota-Babiloni

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Energy Conversion and Management

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Despite the relatively large number of gas stations reached in Spain after decades of sectorial reforms, pre-tax fuel prices in the country remain systematically among the highest in the EU. The literature provides evidence suggesting that a low intensity of competition in the retail distribution could contribute to these casual observations. With the purpose of shedding light on ways to design e↵ective competition measures, we conduct an empirical analysis of more than ten million observations containing information about prices, brands, and locations at the station level. This allows us to know whether the exit (entry) of some classes of stations have the ability to reduce the prices of nearby competitors. Our results suggest that the presence in a local market of a station belonging to the network of the dominant market companies will tend to generate prices above the average. This is not only because these stations set higher prices but also because their presence will give rise to overpricing by local competitors.The opposite occurs with the self-advertised as "low-cost" stations. Policy measures promoting the gradual exit of stations associated with the dominant companies seem quite reasonable in view of the commitment to the transition toward transport decarbonization.

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High temperature heat pump integration into district heating network

Mateu-Royo

Sawalha

Mota-Babiloni

et al. 2020

Energy Conversion and Management

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“…A summary of the regional tax rates prevailing during the sample period is given inTable B1from Appendix B.13 This implies an approximate travel distance of 4 and 10 kilometers in urban and interurban roads with speed limits of 50 and 120 km/h, respectively. It is quite consistent with the result obtained by the circular approach followed inBalaguer and Ripollés (2018b).…”

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Do classes of gas stations contribute differently to fuel prices? Evidence to foster effective competition in Spain

Balaguer

Ripollés

2020

Energy Policy

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Despite the relatively large number of gas stations reached in Spain after decades of sectorial reforms, pre-tax fuel prices in the country remain systematically among the highest in the EU. The literature provides evidence suggesting that a low intensity of competition in the retail distribution could contribute to these casual observations. With the purpose of shedding light on ways to design e↵ective competition measures, we conduct an empirical analysis of more than ten million observations containing information about prices, brands, and locations at the station level. This allows us to know whether the exit (entry) of some classes of stations have the ability to reduce the prices of nearby competitors. Our results suggest that the presence in a local market of a station belonging to the network of the dominant market companies will tend to generate prices above the average. This is not only because these stations set higher prices but also because their presence will give rise to overpricing by local competitors. The opposite occurs with the self-advertised as "low-cost" stations. Policy measures promoting the gradual exit of stations associated with the dominant companies seem quite reasonable in view of the commitment to the transition toward transport decarbonization.

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“…In general, this generation of research papers has concluded that the sub-national borders are also of great economic significance. The paper byBalaguer and Ripollés (2017) constitutes a remarkable exception in this regard, as it provides some evidence that contrasts with that previously obtained for Spain(Gil-Pareja et al, 2005;Requena and Llano, 2010). Specifically, by employing an empirical approach similar to the one used in this paper (i.e.…”

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“…However, in our paper we reexamine whether internal heterogeneity in distributions is possible.4 It is interesting to note that there is a another generation of literature concerned with knowing whether borders between regions within a same country have any economic relevance (e.g Berkowitz and DeJong, 1999;. Heliwell and Verdier, 2001;Gil-Pareja et al, 2005;Daumal and Zignago, 2010;Requena and Llano, 2010;Persyn and Torfs, 2016;Balaguer and Ripollés, 2017). In general, this generation of research papers has concluded that the sub-national borders are also of great economic significance.…”

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