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Emission Taxes, Feed-in Subsidies and the Investment in a Clean Technology by a Polluting Monopoly

García-Alaminos, Ángela; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2019

output but does not affect the total output. On the other hand, the subsidy leads to the monopoly to reduce the dirty output …The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the … calculated solving a two-stage policy game between the regulator and the monopoly with the regulator acting as the leader of the …

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Pay-What-You-Want in Competition

Samahita, Margaret - 2015

Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) pricing schemes are popular in certain industries and not others. We model the seller's choice of pricing scheme under various market structures assuming consumers share their surplus. We show that the profitability and popularity of PWYW depend not only on consumers'...

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Monopoly quality degradation in cable television

Crawford, Gregory S.; Shum, Matthew - 2003

Using an empirical framework derived from models of nonlinear pricing, we estimate the degree of quality degradation in cable television markets. We find lower bounds on quality degradation ranging from 11% to 45% of observed service qualities. Furthermore, cable operators in markets with local...

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Nonlinear pricing with self-control preferences

Esteban, Susanna; Miyagawa, Eiichi; Shum, Matthew - 2003

This paper studies optimal nonlinear pricing for a monopolist when consumers' preferences exhibit temptation and self-control as in Gul and Pesendorfer (2001a). Consumers are subject to temptation inside the store but exercise self-control, and those foreseeing large self-control costs do not...

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Natural or unnatural monopolies in UK telecommunications?

Correa, Lisa - 2003

This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for...

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Joint procurement by heterogeneous buyers

Helmrath, Isabel; Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2022

We analyze self- and joint procurement of countries with heterogeneous demand for a good offered by a price discriminating monopolist. We find that not only countries with low but also with high demand can benefit from committing to jointly procure equal quantities at a uniform price, even if...

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Random Encounters and Information Diffusion about Product Quality

Gabszewicz, Jean J.; Marini, Marco A.; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021

turn into a duopoly and monopoly prices may persist for several periods. Hence, the price-reducing trade effects may take …

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An Alternative to Natural Monopoly

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol - 2019

decreasing average cost function typical of natural monopolies. The resulting output allocation yields a lower deadweight loss … than the monopoly allocation, and is, in some cases, efficient. …

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Hunting unicorns? Experimental evidence on predatory pricing policies

Edlin, Aaron S.; Roux, Catherine; Schmutzler, Armin; … - 2017

-faire regime, the threat of post-entry price cuts discourages entry, and allows incumbents to charge monopoly prices. Current U …

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Acquisitions versus entry: The evolution of concentration

Aydemir, Zava; Schmutzler, Armin - 2002

We consider market dynamics in a reduced form model. In the simplest version, there are two investors and several small noninvesting firms. In each period, one investor can acquire a small firm, the other investor decides about market entry. After that all firms play an oligopoly game. We derive...

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