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? National income accounts do not take into account non-market activities. Some progress has been made in the theory and …
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We compare trade liberalization under Cournot and Bertrand competition in reciprocal markets. In both cases, the critical level of trade costs below which the possibility of trade affects the domestic firm's behavior is the same; trade liberalization increases trade volume monotonically; and...
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evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per … firm declines with the number of firms (business stealing), there is excessive entry into such oligopoly. If trade unions …
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We analyze oligopolistic third-degree price discrimination relative to uniform pricing when markets are always covered. Pricing equilibria are critically determined by supply-side features such as the number of firms and their marginal cost differences. It follows that each firm’s Lerner index...
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information and sell their output in a homogeneous Cournot-oligopoly. We find that asymmetric information may mitigate or more …
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A lack of platform-level competition among digital marketplaces can result in socially inefficient platform design and meaningful welfare losses, even independent of actively anticompetitive behavior. To illustrate the first-order effects platform design can have on competitive outcomes, I...
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How was the birth of "Environmental Economics" related to the first Earth Day fifty years ago (April 22, 1970)? This short note introduces some ideas about an amazing burst of intellectual activity from 1968 to 1974. Environmental economics was not a field of economics before this brief period,...
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money after bad money.’ However, the few studies using incentives are inconclusive. In addition, evidence on potential …-stage investment task in which an initial investment needs to be made to start a project. In the initial investment stage, the size of … the investment and the responsibility of the investor are exogenously varied. In the second investment stage, participants …
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rationing on start-up investment decisions. …
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We study an infinitely repeated oligopoly game in which firms compete on quantity and one of them is capacity …
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