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The Commission was asked to review the National Third Party Access Regime for Natural Gas Pipelines. The review sought to assess the benefits and costs of the Regime, including its effects on investment. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003...
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carriers), and we point to the real danger that the intent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition in …
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provocative implication of the new theory of pricing, however, is that the allocative efficiency of the price system itself may be …
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This paper models firms' entrepreneurial ability according to their ability to predict changes in productivity (i.e., their prediction ability), and derives an aggregate production function as a result of entrepreneurship. An increase in firms' prediction ability improves allocative efficiency...
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This paper examines a particular aspect of entrepreneurship, namely firms' activities in adapting to idiosyncratic environmental changes by appropriately reallocating resources. It presents an empirical framework that examines the social value of firms' abilities to predict and adapt to the...
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This paper studies the performance of four market protocols with regard to allocative efficiency and other performance criteria such as volume or volatility. We examine batch auctions, continuous double auctions, specialist dealerships, and a hybrid of these last two. All protocols are...
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In this paper we explore the possibility, heretofore unexplored in the marketing literature, that firms “invest funds” in their pricing processes. This builds on some of the recent economic work on the costs of price adjustment. To do this we undertook a two-year, cross- disciplinary,...
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competing in a differentiated goods market. For a domestic monopoly, and increasing the number of foreign firms, the government … subsidize in equilibrium. Further, the results are robust to Cournot or Bertrand competition. …
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Models of durable goods with network externalities that set instantaneously have emphasized that a monopolist selling … to the inclusion of network externalities that set in with a lag. If externalities set in with a lag (however small … price discrimination. However, if monopoly power is "short lived" (for example due to copying), we show that, depending on …
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externalities. We assume that high expected sales increase the willingness to pay for the good. This is named the "network effect … network externality and will invite entry. In markets with very strong network externalities, the leader pays a subsidy to the … invited followers. We also show that the results hold under uncertainty, and when the post-entry competition is Cournot. …
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