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broker therefore strategically sells partial information on consumers in order to soften competition between firms. Extending …
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This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric … subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the industry core is inefficiently locked in to the smaller region …
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We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area … without. Our analysis finds that restructuring led to: (1) a two percent improvement in fuel efficiency for IOs, (2) a ten …
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industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher … for natural gas, are characterized by imperfect competition and increasing costs to develop new energy sources. As a …
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The goal of this paper is to bring some unity to the theoretical side of the debate on internalization of airport congestion by showing that all the literature's theoretical results can be derived within one simple and unified framework. The analysis starts by replicating the results of...
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This paper analyzes slot-based approaches to management of airport congestion, using a model where airlines are asymmetric and internalize airport congestion. Under these circumstances, optimal congestion tolls differ across carriers, and since a slot-sale regime (with its uniform slot price)...
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We present an analysis of the share of public ownership in the product market in the OECD countries from 1974 to 2007. Despite much has been said on the broad topic of reforms and regulation, a sector-specific insight is missing. We replicate the analysis of Galasso (2014) by sector of activity...
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We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider's (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...
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This paper analyzes the dynamic incentives for technology adoption under a transferable permits system, which allows for strategic trading on the permit market. Initially, firms can invest both in low-emitting production technologies and trade permits. In the model, technology adoption and...
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efficiency of products. Considering energy taxes, subsidies to firms for investment in more eco-friendly products, and product …
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