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This paper considers price determination by monopolistic sellers who know the distribution of valuations among the potential buyers. We derive a novel condition under which the optimal price set by the monopolist is unique. In many settings, this condition is easy to interpret, and it is valid...
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Consider a market where an informed monopolist sets the price for a good or asset with a value unknown to potential buyers. Upon observing the price, buyers may pay some cost for information about the value before deciding on purchases. To restrict buyer beliefs we generalize the idea of the...
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We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market framework. The platform provider faces uncertainty about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. It maximizes the expected present value of its profit stream in a continuous-time...
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The goal of this paper is to reexamine the optimal design and efficiency of loyalty rewards in markets for final consumption goods. While the literature has emphasized the role of loyalty rewards as endogenous switching costs (which distort the efficient allocation of consumers), in this paper I...
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In an intertemporal setting in which individual uncertainty is resolved over time, advance-purchase discounts can serve to price discriminate between consumers with different expected valuations for the same product. Consumers with a high expected valuation purchase the product before learning...
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imperfect tests to find out about buildings’ damage types. The insurance market is a natural monopoly. If more than one insurer …. First we show that the natural insurance monopoly need not be sustainable. Then we show that in the equilibrium industry … structure the incumbent may accommodate entry even when the natural monopoly is sustainable. The theoretical findings are thus …
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increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a monopoly. Workers can specialise in material goods production … their bliss point can only be made better off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than …
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, it later 'tips' to monopoly, after which entry is hard, often even too hard given incompatibility. And while switching …
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For many goods (such as experience goods or addictive goods), consumers' preferences may change over time. In this paper, we examine a monopolist's optimal pricing schedule when current consumption can affect a consumer's valuation in the future and valuations are unobservable. We assume that...
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upstream monopolist to limit output to monopoly levels, whereas a disintegrated structure will ‘over-sell’, producing more in … is, supply less than their monopoly output. Low-cost firms continue to over-sell, so all types of firms have a reason to …
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