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 …

We consider a non-durable good monopoly that collects data on its customers in order to profile them and subsequently … monopoly equilibrium profit is globally an increasing function of the privacy cost while in the PHI case, it is almost always a …

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 …

-quality menus to segment the market. We show that, contrary to the Coase conjecture for the homogeneous durable good monopoly …

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 …

We consider a model featuring a single-product natural monopoly, which faces evaders, i.e., individuals that may not … the price, the level of deterrence effort, and socially costly transfers to ensure the monopoly's participation. We obtain … to finance the firm's deficit. The regulated price is always below the monopoly price and, under sufficient conditions …

solution. Then we consider a monopoly. Market power affects both output and sugar content, possibly in opposite directions, and …

Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals …