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We present a model of entry and exit with Bayesian learning and price competition. A new product of initially unknown … quality is introduced in the market, and purchases of the product yield information on its true quality. We assume that the …
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learning and turnover among buyers. …
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Do asset prices aggregate investors’ private information about the ability of financial analysts? We show that as financial analysts become reputable, the market can get trapped: Investors optimally choose to ignore their private information, and blindly follow analyst recommendations. As time...
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This paper studies strategic information transmission in a dynamic environment where, each period, a privately informed expert sends a message and a decision maker takes an action. Our main result is that, in contrast to a static environment, full information revelation is possible. The gradual...
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Conventional deadweight loss measures of the social cost of monopoly ignore, among other things, the social cost of … method of measuring the social cost of monopoly. Using elements of general equilibrium theory, we propose a social cost … of our approach for antitrust law as well as how our methodology can be used in practice for allegations of monopoly …
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relative to A. Hence, absent strong antitrust or intellectual property protections, the A firm can leverage its monopoly into B … substitute for Netscape; in our model, this maximizes Microsoft's joint monopoly profits. Furthermore, Microsoft has no incentive … complementary products, which suggests that a monopoly internet service provider will offer net neutrality. There are other means …
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A general equilibrium analysis of monopoly power is proposed as an alternative to the partial equilibrium analyses of … inequalities over market data from observations on a market economy with competitive factor markets. The social cost of monopoly …
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An applied general equilibrium analysis of monopoly power is proposed as an alternative to the partial equilibrium … analyses of monopoly pricing current in antitrust economics. This analysis introduces a new notion of market equilibrium where … firms with monopoly power are cost-minimizing price-takers in competitive factor markets and make supracompetitive profits …
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We consider the optimal design of flexible use in a digital-rights-management policy for a digital good subject to piracy. Consumers can acquire the digital good either as a licensed product or as an unlicensed copy. The ease of access to unlicensed copies is increasing in the flexibility...
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We consider the optimal design of flexible use in a digital-rights-management policy. The basic model considers a single distributor of digital goods and a continuum of consumers. Each consumer can acquire the digital good either as a licensed product or an unlicensed copy. The availability of...
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