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solution. Then we consider a monopoly. Market power affects both output and sugar content, possibly in opposite directions, and …
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This paper studies a market for a medical product in which there is perfect competition among health insurers, while the good is sold by a monopolist. Individuals differ in their severity of illness and there is ex post moral hazard. We consider two regimes: one in which insurers use coinsurance...
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This paper studies the implications of monopsony power for optimal income taxation and welfare. Firms observe workers’ abilities while the government does not and monopsony power determines what share of the labor market surplus is translated into profits. Monopsony power increases the tax...
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Asymmetric information in procurement entails double marginalization. The phenomenon is most severe when the buyer has all the bargaining power at the production stage, while it vanishes when the buyer and suppliers’ weights are balanced. Vertical integration eliminates double marginalization...
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We investigate the sources, scope, and implications of landowner market power. We show how zoning regulations generate spillovers through increased markups and derive conditions under which restricting landownership concentration reduces rents. Using newbuilding-level data from New York City, we...
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A durable good monopolist faces a continuum of heterogeneous customers who make purchase decisions by comparing present … customers that lower prices would not be offered in future periods, and that (b) this can happen only under the stage …
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discrimination will improve monopoly profit if and only if information precision is higher than a certain threshold level. This U … monopoly’s investment in information accuracy. However, this cost should not dissuade firms to collect some information on … customers’ tastes, as the absence of consumers’ profiling is actually detrimental to consumers …
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-quality menus to segment the market. We show that, contrary to the Coase conjecture for the homogeneous durable good monopoly …
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We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public … utilities. To maximize total surplus, the regulator sets the price and socially costly transfers, ensuring that the monopoly …
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The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network. We propose a simplistic re-interpretation of the classical Krugman (1980) model that accounts for surprisingly many of the empirical regularities. This re-interpretation relies...
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