Interference across competing firms in RCTs can be informative about market structure. An experiment that subsidizes a random sub-set 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...
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2023/10/16
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Using Individual-Level Randomized Treatment to Learn about Market Structure?