Getting into the Weeds: Competition and Cheating in the Washington State Marijuana Market

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Abstract: To sustain profitability, firms strive to gain any edge over their competitors: sometimes even acting illegally. This paper looks into the effect of the level of competition on the rates of license violations within the Washington State Recreational Marijuana Market. I exploit a 2016 policy change in which some counties received a bump in the amount of firms allowed to operate in the county, while others did not. Using a difference-in- differences approach around this competition shock, this paper finds that counties that received more licenses were correlated with significant, higher levels of license violations than those that did not.

Type of resource	text
Date created	May 3, 2019

Author	Patton, Henry
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of Economics
Primary advisor	Clerici-Arias, Marcelo
Advisor	Larsen, Brad

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/fy191fg5303

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Preferred Citation: Patton, Henry. (2019). Getting into the Weeds: Competition and Cheating in the Washington State Marijuana Market. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/fy191fg5303

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