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100			_aCasaburi, Lorenzo and Reed, Tristan _935764
245			_aUsing individual-level randomized treatment to learn about market structure
260			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
300			_a14(4), Oct, 2022: p.58-90
520			_aInterference 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 operating in a village. Own-price and cross-price supply elasticities are high. Farmers face a competitive market in this first stage of the value chain. – Reproduced
773			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
906			_aMARKET STRUCTURE
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