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This paper studies whether a monopolist with private marginal cost information has incentives to make cost-reducing innovations through research and development (R&D) when its output and price are regulated according to the incentive-compatible mechanism of Baron and Myerson (1982). Under...
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The article is devoted to a phenomenon called vertical separation in the area of network industries. Vertical separation is understood as de-merging of infrastructure and delegating control over it to independent manager banned from operating on downstream markets which are subject to...
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We analyze the incidence and welfare effects of unit sales tax increases in experimental monopoly and Bertrand markets … to consumers, independent of whether buyers are automated or human players. In monopoly markets, a monopolist bears a …
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We study a tractable two-dimensional model of price discrimination. Consumers combine a rigid with a more flexible choice, such as choosing the location of a house and its quality or size. We show that the optimal pricing scheme involves no bundling if consumer types are affiliated. Conversely,...
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We analyze a two-period licensing game in which a non-producer upstream patent holder licenses an innovation to either one or two downstream licensees for a payment based on the licensee’s expected per-period profit. Licensees have private information about the innovation’s value, and their...
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A new theory of capitalism is suggested. Its key moments and general logic are presented. This theory is based on the distinction between two market types – the simple commodity market and the capitalist one. Disequilibrium and "imperfect competition" are admitted to be a functional norm of...
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The paper analyzes Adam Smith’s views on monopoly focusing on Book IV and V of The Wealth of Nations and argues that … Smith has left his analysis of monopoly in an embryonic form while the majority of scholars have assessed it starting from … of the word ‘monopoly’ to refer to a heterogeneous collection of market outcomes, besides that of a single seller market …
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A new theory of capitalism is suggested. Its key moments and general logic are presented. This theory is based on the distinction between two market types – the simple commodity market and the capitalist one. Disequilibrium and "imperfect competition" are admitted to be a functional norm of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259286
Myanmar. The development of a new transit route through Myanmar, depriving Bangladesh of its former monopoly, has modified the …
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tax it would pay for acquiring monopoly rights on a particular venture, posted publicly on a government-auction website … it right away. The advantage to the state and its citizens is that monopoly efficiency does not just serve the monopolist …
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