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discrimination. The second part of the paper turns to the role of the Internet. Online minority buyers who use the Internet Referral …
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price equilibrium can emerge. The paper shows that this outcome can be socially optimal and that, while a move from monopoly …
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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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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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, price discrimination, and exclusion. Our analysis shows how a monopolist sometimes has an incentive to tie a complementary …
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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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We examine the incentives for a government to levy an optimal tariff on a foreign monopolist. With complete information, the home government uses tariffs to extract rents and therefore implements a policy of discriminatory tariffs entailing higher tariffs on more efficient firms. By contrast if...
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This paper examines the effects of auctioning quota licenses when monopoly power exists. With a foreign monopoly and …, as long as the quota is not too far from the free trade import level. In contrast, when there is a home monopoly and …
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a natural monopoly market. We emphasize that subsidy competition between governments can serve to coordinate the entry …
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