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An upstream firm can license its innovation to downstream firms that have to exert further development effort. There are situations in which more licenses are sold if effort is a hidden action. Moral hazard may thus increase the probability that the product will be developed.
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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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This paper studies dynamic pricing by a monopolist selling to buyers who learn from each other’s purchases. The price posted in each period serves to extract rent from the current buyer, as well as to control the amount of information transmitted to future buyers. As information increases...
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by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that philanthropy does not necessarily increase long-run growth and that it …
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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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earlier buyers so as to deprive the prey of the scale it needs, thus making monopoly profits on later buyers. Several …
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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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The goal of this paper is to examine the role of multiproduct firms in the market provision of product diversity. The analysis is conducted within the spatial model of nonlocalized competition proposed by Chen and Riordan (2006). It turns out that the effect of multiproduct firms on product...
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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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