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We present a model of dynamic monopoly pricing for a good that displays network effects. In contrast with the standard …
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We address the question of designing dynamic menus to sell experience goods. A dynamic menu consists of a set of price-quantity pairs in each period. The quality of the product is initially unknown, and more information is generated through experimentation. The amount of information in the...
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encourage buyers to bargain. The posted price not only exceeds the monopoly price, it can be higher than the price a seller …
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Multiemployer collective bargaining relationships between unions and employer associations easily devolve into legalized cartels. Once unions establish themselves as the bargaining representative for employers’ employees, the employers have much to gain from banding together as an association,...
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We analyze a model of monopolistic price discrimination where only some consumers are originally sufficiently informed about their preferences, e.g., about their future demand for a utility such as electricity or telecommunication. When more consumers become informed, we show that this benefits...
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the intensity of network effects, and that a discriminating monopoly may supply large quantities for all consumers than a …
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A durable good monopolist faces a continuum of heterogeneous customers who make purchase decisions by comparing present and expected price-quality offers. The monopolist designs a sequence of price-quality menus to segment the market. We consider the Markov Perfect Equilibrium (MPE) of a game...
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A durable good monopolist faces a continuum of heterogeneous customers who make purchase decisions by comparing present and expected price-quality offers. The monopolist designs a sequence of price-quality menus to segment the market. We consider the Markov Perfect Equilibrium (MPE) of a game...
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bunching occurs, the bunching interval is necessarily smaller. Additionally, under certain conditions the monopoly solution may … even achieve the ?rst best (i.e., production ef?ciency). We also demonstrate that the optimal monopoly so- lutions can be …
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contestable natural monopoly earns zero profits despite economies of scale. We show that informational imperfections can also …
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