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Endogenous Monopsony and the Perverse Effect of the Minimum Wage in Small Firms
Danziger, Leif - 2021
The minimum wage rate has been introduced in many countries as a means of alleviating the poverty of the working poor. This paper shows, however, that an imperfectly enforced minimum wage rate causes small firms to face an upward-sloping labor supply schedule. Since this turns these firms into...
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Nursing Home Choice, Family Bargaining and Optimal Policy in a Hotelling Economy
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2016
The family plays a central role in decisions relative to the provision of long term care (LTC). We develop a model of family bargaining to study the impact of the distribution of bargaining power within the family on the choices of nursing homes, and on the location and prices chosen by nursing...
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Efficiency Enhancing Taxation in Two-Sided Markets
Kind, Hans Jarle - 2008
-valorem taxes. We show that (i) a monopoly may have too high output compared to the social optimum; (ii) output may be reduced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772273
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Platform Intermediation in a Market for Differentiated Products
Galeotti, Andrea - 2008
that the monopoly platform does not introduce distortions over and above those arising from the market power of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772229
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Complexity, Efficiency, and Fairness of Multi-Product Monopoly Pricing
Miravete, Eugenio J. - 2014
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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Genetic Contamination of Traditional Products
Choi, E. Kwan - 2021
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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Markets for Information : Of Inefficient Firewalls and Efficient Monopolies
Cabrales, Antonio; Gottardi, Piero - 2021
typically noisy. Also, the market for information tends to be a monopoly, and there is typically inefficiency given by …
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Taxation in Two-Sided Markets
Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - 2021
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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Taxation and Market Power
Konrad, Kai A. - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149368
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Journey into the Unknown? Economic Consequences of Factor Market Integration Under Increasing Returns to Scale
Schäfer, Andreas - 2011
What are the dynamic consequences of comprehensive integration shocks? The answer to this question appears all but trivial. We set up a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy where both capital and labor are mobile and there are increasing returns to scale at the aggregate level....
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