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This paper analyzes third-degree price discrimination of a monopoly airline in the presence of congestion externality … identification of the time-valuation effect of price discrimination, which can work in the opposite direction as the well …
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our theory is the health care market, where drug prices can be very high. Our model predicts that monopoly prices for …We offer a theory of how the combination of budget constraints and insurance drives up prices. A natural context for … literature. As a result, prices of drugs sold by a monopoly treating rare serious diseases are doomed to go sky high. …
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We study resource extraction by a non-renewable resource supplier who faces demand from two regions, one of which employs a tax on the imported resource and a subsidy on the available backstop technology, and one that has no environmental policy in place. The resource extraction path possibly...
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affects the optimal price/price markup or optimal quantity. A monopoly example is used to show that seemingly strong … uncertainty types can lead to quite special results. Monopoly examples of the newsboy problem type are further used to show that …
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This paper studies the relationship between three key elements of the marketing mix, namely, price, product, and promotion, in a model where a seller employs informative advertising to launch a new product. We propose a fairly general advertising technology for the study of three promotional...
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The effects of climate policies are often studied under the assumption of perfectly competitive markets for fossil fuels. In this paper, we allow for monopolistic fossil fuel supply. We show that, if fossil and renewable energy sources are perfect substitutes, a phase will exist during which the...
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Most airports operate under public ownership, while some are privatized and economically regulated. Only a few airports are privately owned and experience little or no ex-ante regulation of airport charges. On the other hand, airports nowadays earn as much revenue from transport-related...
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side. We use the model to investigate the welfare effects of discrimination (also known as risk selection). We postulate … find that aggregate surplus decreases when risk aversion is high. When risk aversion is low however, discrimination …
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