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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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The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) prediction of demand by a monopolist firm is examined. It is shown that, in the absence of AI prediction, firms face complex trade-offs in setting price and quantity ahead of demand that impact on the returns of AI adoption. Different industrial...
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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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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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, suffer a loss, that is not offset by gains to the monopolist. This is the "deadweight loss" from monopoly, and in … conventional analysis the only social cost of monopoly. The loss suffered by those who continue to buy the product at the higher … cost is regarded merely as a transfer from consumers to owners of the monopoly seller and has not previously been factored …
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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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So long as the entry and exit of firms using the generic technology sets the price in an industry, one or more price-taking firms can coexist with proprietary technologies yielding more or less substantial quasi-rents to the sunk development costs. Consumer welfare is increased if an innovator...
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This paper investigates the role of product upgrades and consumer switching costs in the tying of complementary products. Previous analyses of tying have found that a monopolist of one product cannot increase its profits and reduce social welfare by tying and monopolizing a complementary product...
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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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