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Oil price behavior has changed dramatically in the last twenty years. These changes can be explained rather simply in terms of the delayed responses of supply and demand to prices, and in terms of changes in the rate of discovery of reserves. This analysis can be used to forecast possible future...
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its market; insurgent groups, producing paste of cocaine and being a local monopsony in the coca-leaf market; and cocaine …
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Applicants for any given job are more or less suited to fill it, and the firm will select the best among them. Increasing the wage offer attracts more applicants and makes it possible to raise the hiring standard and improve the productivity of the staff. Wages that optimize on the trade-off...
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We analyze monopoly power in a market for a complementary fossil resource like oil in a two country/two period model …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 … pain of losing the auction to a competitor. With minimal government intervention, the “invisible hand” of economic theory …
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The present paper provides a descriptive analysis of the second-degree price discrimination problem on a monopolistic two-sided market. By imposing a simple two-sided framework with two distinct types of agents on one of its market sides, it will be shown that under incomplete information, the...
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