The European commission?s proposal on the EU-ETS states that auctioning will be the main method for the allocation of E. U. allowances. This article compares auctioning of carbon permit pollution with grandfathering and analyzes different auction rules in the context of multi-unit demands to...

This paper studies competition for the market. The origin of the concept can be found in Sir E. Chadwick and Walras?s works. It was rediscovered by Demsetz. It is now a key element of the regulation of natural monopoly or oligopoly industries. Auctioning the right to be a monopolist is analyzed...

This paper focuses on recent theoretical contributions to the hospital price regulation literature. Besides the usual efficiency-rent extraction trade-off, some specific trade-off between quality enhancement and cost reduction effort or between efficiency and selection deterrence must be taken...