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Procompetitive Market Access
Krishna, Kala; Roy, Suddhasatwa; Thursby, Marie C. - 2022
provide two examples to illustrate this point. In the context of a Cournot duopoly, we show that an implementation scheme in …
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Merchant Transmission Investment
Joskow, Paul L.; Tirole, Jean - 2021
We examine the performance attributes of a merchant transmission investment framework that relies on market driven' transmission investment to provide the infrastructure to support competitive wholesale markets for electricity. Under a stringent set of assumptions, the merchant investment model...
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The Antitrust Analysis of Multi-Sided Platform Businesses
Evans, David S. - 2013
the general industrial organization theory of multi-sided platforms and then considers various issues concerning the …
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Market Definition, Market Power
Kaplow, Louis - 2015
Market definition and market power are central features of competition law and practice but pose serious challenges. On one hand, market definition suffers decisive logical infirmities that render it infeasible, unnecessary, and counterproductive, and the practice of stating market power...
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Some Economic Aspects of Antitrust Analysis in Dynamically Competitive Industries
Schmalensee, Richard; Evans, David S. - 2021
Competition in many important industries centers on investment in intellectual property. Firms engage in dynamic, Schumpeterian competition for the market, through sequential winner-take-all races to produce drastic innovations, rather than through static price/output competition in the market....
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Valuing Identity
Fryer, Roland G. - 2010
Affirmative action policies are practiced around the world. This paper explores the welfare economics of such policies. A model is proposed where heterogeneous agents, distinguished by skill level and social identity, compete for positions in a hierarchy. The problem of designing an efficient...
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A Testable Theory of Imperfect Perception
Caplin, Andrew - 2011
We introduce a rational choice theory that allows for many forms of imperfect perception, including failures of memory …, selective attention, and adherence to simplifying rules of thumb. Despite its generality, the theory has strong, simple, and … (stochastic) consequences of their available choices. Our theory separately identifies two distinct "framing" effects: standard …
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Cycles of Distrust : An Economic Model
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
We propose a model of cycles of distrust and conflict. Overlapping generations of agents from two groups sequentially play coordination games under incomplete information about whether the other side consists of "extremists" who will never take the good/trusting action. Good actions may be...
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Informational Frictions and Commodity Markets
Sockin, Michael - 2013
This paper develops a model to analyze information aggregation in commodity markets. Through centralized trading, commodity prices aggregate dispersed information about the strength of the global economy among goods producers whose production has complementarity, and serve as price signals to...
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Uncertainty as Commitment
Nosal, Jaromir B. - 2013
Time-inconsistency of no-bailout policies can create incentives for banks to take excessive risks and generate endogenous crises when the government cannot commit. However, at the outbreak of financial problems, usually the government is uncertain about their nature, and hence it may delay...
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