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outcome. The totality of possible outcomes drives the national innovation system and the returns to a particular successful … required to motivate investment attempting to turn them into an innovation. The alternative to a valuable proprietary … innovation is not the same innovation freely available but the unchanged generic technology. Growth is concentrated in any …
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This paper provides a new explanation for tying that is not based on any of the standard explanations -- efficiency, price discrimination, and exclusion. Our analysis shows how a monopolist sometimes has an incentive to tie a complementary good to its monopolized good in order to transfer...
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foreign monopoly firm by presenting a generalization of the offer curve. The paper demonstrates the existence of a partial … consequences: when trading with a foreign monopoly firm a nation implementing such a policy will achieve only its autarky level of …
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Standard policies to correct market power and selection can be misguided when these two forces co-exist. Using a calibrated model of employer-sponsored health insurance, we show that the risk adjustment commonly used by employers to offset adverse selection often reduces the amount of...
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This paper develops a general theory of aggregation in inefficient economies. We provide non-parametric formulas for …%, increasing the economy-wide cost of monopoly distortions by two orders of magnitude compared to the famous 0.1% estimate by …
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We consider the effects of antidumping law when utilized by competitive domestic petitioners against a foreign monopolist. The foreign monopolist must set capacity before the realization of random foreign demand, but can reduce the cost of holding excess capacity in periods of slack foreign...
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The viatical settlement industry provides an opportunity for terminally-ill consumers, typically HIV patients, to exploit a previously untapped source of equity in existing life insurance contracts to finance consumption and medical expenses. The 1996 introduction and dissemination of effecive...
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absolute margin. We derive these results in both a monopoly model and a variety of different competitive models. We conclude …
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include pre-existing monopoly power as well. We show that the existence of monopoly power has two offsetting effects on … welfare. First, the environmental policy reduces monopoly profits, and the negative effect on income increases labor supply in … interaction with the pre-existing monopoly distortion further exacerbates the labor supply distortion. This second effect is …
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Thereare three points made in this paper. The first is that the question concerning choice of a product line by a monopolist is similar in structure to other adverse selection problems -- and can be analyzed in an elementary way by adapting techniques recently developed for such problems. Such...
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