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A principal, who wants prices to be as lowas possible, contracts with agents who would like to charge the monopoly …
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Commodity bundling is studied in an environment where the dispersion of valuations unambiguously decreases when two or more goods are sold as a bundle only. Bundling is more likely to dominate separately selling the goods if marginal costs are low relative to the average valuation, or if the...
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relative to A. Hence, absent strong antitrust or intellectual property protections, the A firm can leverage its monopoly into B … substitute for Netscape; in our model, this maximizes Microsoft's joint monopoly profits. Furthermore, Microsoft has no incentive … complementary products, which suggests that a monopoly internet service provider will offer net neutrality. There are other means …
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In this paper we present a series of models, all within the context of a simple two-good economy, which bring out the distinctions between the different types of money and financial institutions. The models emphasize the physical properties of the economic goods, moneys, and trading systems. In...
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An applied general equilibrium analysis of monopoly power is proposed as an alternative to the partial equilibrium … analyses of monopoly pricing current in antitrust economics. This analysis introduces a new notion of market equilibrium where … firms with monopoly power are cost-minimizing price-takers in competitive factor markets and make supracompetitive profits …
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A general equilibrium analysis of monopoly power is proposed as an alternative to the partial equilibrium analyses of … inequalities over market data from observations on a market economy with competitive factor markets. The social cost of monopoly …
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Conventional deadweight loss measures of the social cost of monopoly ignore, among other things, the social cost of … method of measuring the social cost of monopoly. Using elements of general equilibrium theory, we propose a social cost … of our approach for antitrust law as well as how our methodology can be used in practice for allegations of monopoly …
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In this paper we present a series of models, all within the context of a simple two-good economy, which bring out the distinctions among the different types of money and financial institutions. The models emphasize the physical properties of the economic goods, moneys, and trading systems. Part...
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floor, however, a Demsetz auction is worse than no regulation at all of the bottleneck monopoly. Our results apply beyond …
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The paper, prepared for a Roundtable on Major Economic Problems in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., discusses some aspects of price theory ñ in particular, the theory of general equilibrium -ñ which may offer some theoretical insights about the economic problems to be encountered during the...
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