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This paper explores the impact of product liability on vertical product differentiation when product safety is perfectly observable. In a two-stage competition, duopolistic firms are subject to strict liability and segment the market such that a low-safety product is marketed at a low price to...
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-valorem taxes. We show that (i) a monopoly may have too high output compared to the social optimum; (ii) output may be reduced by …
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that the monopoly platform does not introduce distortions over and above those arising from the market power of the …
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The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board administers the purchase and sale of wine and spirits and is mandated to charge a uniform 30% markup on all products. We use an estimated discrete choice model of demand for spirits, together with information on wholesale prices, to assess the implications...
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Cross-pollination can be caused by birds, insects and wind. Genetically modified (GM) seeds are produced each year in a controlled environment to maintain their purity. However, pollen from the GM crop can be transferred to traditional crops. When the GM crop producers are in long-run...
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typically noisy. Also, the market for information tends to be a monopoly, and there is typically inefficiency given by …
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Two-sided platform firms serve distinct customer groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and include major businesses such as the media industry, banking, and the software industry. A well known textbook result in one-sided markets is that a government may increase a...
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We analyze the incidence and welfare effects of unit sales taxes in experimental monopoly and Bertrand markets. We find …, in line with economic theory, that firms with no market power are able to shift a high share of a tax burden on to … consumers, independent of whether buyers are automated or human players. In monopoly markets, a monopolist bears a large share …
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This paper studies how the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) regime in destination countries influences the way multinationals structure the international organization of their production. In particular, we explore how multinationals divide tasks of different complexities across countries with...
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party mimic each other's policies. Moreover partisan politics may also act through a monopoly power effect linked to several … sources of interaction. Yardstick hypothesis, intellectual trend hypothesis and potential partisan monopoly power effect are … intellectual trend hypothesis. Moreover evidence is found of a partisan monopoly power effect: several successive legislatures with …
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