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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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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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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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Entry, exit, and the determinants of market structure

Dunne, Timothy; Klimek, Shawn D.; Roberts, Mark J.; Xu, … - 2013

This paper estimates a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and uses it to quantify the determinants of market structure and long-run firm values for two U.S. service industries, dentists and chiropractors. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs...

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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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Trust among the avatars: A virtual world experiment, with and without textual and visual cues

Atlas, Stephen; Putterman, Louis - 2010

We invited residents of a virtual world who vary in real-world age and occupation to play a trust game with stakes comparable to in world wages. In different treatments, the lab wall was adorned with an emotively suggestive photograph, a suggestive text was added to the instructions, or both a...

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Market Structure and Market Performance in E-Commerce

Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2012

We investigate the causal effect of market structure on market performance in the consumer electronics. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail data on wholesale prices provided by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input...

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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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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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