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the context of TPA regulation. We then show that this setting compels the leader to adopt a strategic storage decision … leader decision is part of a strategy to raise a rival's costs. Furthermore, one can think that optimal regulation of the …
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Although we have many tools to understand the effect of regulation on firm entry, we know little about the importance … of actual regulation enforcement. For this purpose, this paper uses data from Spain's local television industry from 1995 … regulation and a posterior liberalization. During this period, the local television industry transitioned from a state of …
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Cost-of-service regulation that reduces prices will also reduce incentives to control cost. Increased output … leaves a positive welfare gain when regulation reduces price by some percentage. To be useful to regulators, these … regulated industries, price must fall by half to outweigh cost increases of as little as 2%. Cost-of-service regulation appears …
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This chapter surveys the developments in price discrimination theory as it applies to imperfectly competitive markets. Broad themes and conclusions are discussed in the areas of first-, second- and third-degree price discrimination, pricing under demand uncertainty, bundling and behavior-based...
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We study different determinants of real-life R&D decisions within a net present value framework. Besides entry threat, Bertrand competition and multi-stage R&D with an abandonment option, our model includes demand uncertainty, modelled as a lottery. A lottery becomes more divergent when the...
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This paper analyses the disparity regarding the sign of the investment–uncertainty relationship in models of investment under symmetric adjustment costs. That sign is determined by the shape of the profit function, which is related to the nature of demand shocks.
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We study different determinants of real-life R&D decisions within a net present value framework. Besides entry threat, Bertrand competition and multi-stage R&D with an abandonment option, our model includes demand uncertainty, modelled as a lottery. A lottery becomes more divergent when the...
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Most US consumers are charged a near-constant retail price for electricity, despite substantial hourly variation in the wholesale market price. The Smart Grid is a set of emerging technologies that, among other effects, will facilitate "real-time pricing" for electricity and increase price...
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