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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2448-6655</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Análisis económico]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Anál. econ.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2448-6655</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Azcapotzalco, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2448-66552020000300221</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Price Transparency and Tacit Collusion in the Gasoline Industry in Mexico]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Transparencia de precios y colusión tácita en la industria de la gasolina en México]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Riccardo Morganti]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Paolo]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Panamericana Escuela de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>35</volume>
<numero>90</numero>
<fpage>221</fpage>
<lpage>228</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2448-66552020000300221&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2448-66552020000300221&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2448-66552020000300221&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT: Despite the introduction of new retailers in the Mexican gasoline industry in 2018, retail margins remain high regardless of the low international oil prices. This article introduces a theoretical model in which price transparency reinforces tacit collusion among retailers rather than favoring a competitive environment. Counterintuitively, the government should strive to implement price Obfuscation rather than Transparency, in order to promote socially beneficial price wars.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN: A pesar de la introducción de nuevos minoristas en la industria mexicana de la gasolina en 2018, los márgenes minoristas siguen siendo altos independientemente de los bajos precios internacionales del petróleo. Se presenta un modelo teórico en el que la transparencia de precio refuerza la colusión tácita entre los minoristas en lugar de favorecer un entorno competitivo. A pesar de que pueda parecer contra intuitivo, el gobierno debe esforzarse por implementar la ofuscación de precios en lugar de la transparencia, para promover guerras de precios que resulten beneficiosas para la sociedad.]]></p></abstract>
<kwd-group>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Transparency]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Tacit Collusion]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Competition Policy]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Cartels]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[L13]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[L40]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Transparencia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Colusión Tácita]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Políticas de Competencia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Carteles]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[L13]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[L40]]></kwd>
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