中国人民大学经济学院能源经济系
能源经济学研讨会

【总第12期】

时间：5月10日，周四， 12:00-2:00　　　

地点：明德主楼419

题目：

Supermarkets and Gasoline:

　　An Empirical Study of Bundled Discounts

文章摘要：

Many supermarkets in the U.S. and other developed countries offer grocery-gasoline bundled discounts whereby supermarket customers whose grocery purchase is above a certain dollar amount are offered a gasoline price discount. This paper takes a first step toward understanding this practice of bundled discounts. We use nearly ideal gasoline price data to study the short- and long-run competitive effects of grocery-gasoline bundled discounts in an Australian market. Our overall evidence suggests that supermarkets offer gasoline discounts for non-exclusionary purposes.

作者简介：

Dr. Zhongmin Wang (王忠民) is a Fellow at the Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington D.C. His research areas include empirical industrial organization, energy economics, and information economics. Dr. Wang`s work has appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, one of the best economics journals in the world. Dr. Wang obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University, and before joining RFF, Dr. Wang was an assistant professor of economics at Northeastern University, Boston, U.S.A, and at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Resources for the Future (RFF) is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that conducts independent research – rooted primarily in economics and other social sciences – on environmental, energy, natural resource and environmental health issues. RFF improves environmental and natural resource policymaking worldwide through objective social science research of the highest caliber.

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