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

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

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 … output but does not affect the total output. On the other hand, the subsidy leads to the monopoly to reduce the dirty output …

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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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Industrial specialisation, trade, and labour market dynamics in a multisectoral model of technological progress

Stehrer, Robert - 2001

The issue of the impact of trade on specialisation structures and the effects of trade liberalisation on employment and labour markets has been intensively discussed in the recent literature on trade liberalisation and globalisation. In Europe this debate has gained new momentum in the...

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Distributional comparative statics with heterogeneous agents

Hefti, Andreas - 2016

examples from monopolistic competition, discrete choice, partial and general equilibrium theory and contest theory. …

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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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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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Ecology, economics, and network dynamics

Hastings, Harold M.; Young-Taft, Tai; Tsen, Chih-Jui - 2020

working paper, focused on the underlying theory, appeared as an invited feature article in the February 2020 Society for Chaos … Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences newsletter (Hastings et al. 2020). …

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Multi-battle contests, finite automata, and the tug-of-war

Ewerhart, Christian; Teichgräber, Julian - 2019

This paper examines multi-battle contests whose extensive form can be represented in terms of a finite state machine. We start by showing that any contest that satisfies our assumptions decomposes into two phases, a principal phase (in which states cannot be revisited) and a concluding...

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