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Sylos Labini’s essay is devoted to the analysis of price determination under condition of monopoly and monopsony. The … problem of price indeterminacy in case of bilateral monopoly (associated with monopsony) is thoroughly discussed in relation … analysis of monopoly and monopsony to dismiss the ‘Classical’ argument that a perfect wage flexibility can bring about a full …
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We study competitive awarding procedures of short haul railway passenger services in Germany from 1995 to 2011 by means of a newly collected data set. In particular, we use regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the number of bidders, the identity of the winning bidder and the...
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The nation states created by the disintegration of the former Soviet Union inherited transportation systems ill suited to the needs of market economies. Technologies were often outmoded, too energy intensive and not well adapted to the on-time delivery of small shipments characteristic of a...
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Since the publication by Williamson (1968) of his seminal paper on antitrust there has been a growing recognition by regulators of the need to assess trade-offs between merger-related efficiency gains and merger-induced increases in market power. This paper addresses that need by presenting a...
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In this article, I analyze and compare the contributions of Dupuit and Walras on the natural monopoly of railroads … and Walras both concluded that railroads were better managed under the monopoly regime; however they drew upon different …. Both theorists argued that inland waterways—as opposed to railroads—could be vertically unbundled, a point which previous …
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The article deals with the relation between assumptions of economic theories and their political implications. Two canons of economic science are being analyzed according to the degree of abstraction. A hypothesis is that the more abstract formal canon is connected with a liberal kind of...
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Paolo Sylos Labini's Oligopoly Theory and Technical Progress (1957) is considered one of the major contributions to entry-prevention models, especially after Franco Modigliani's famous formalization. Nonetheless, Modigliani neglected Labini's major aim when reviewing his work (JPE, 1958),...
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The paper contrasts early theories of the utility function (starting with Bentham and elaborated by Jevons) with the modern theory (laid down by Fisher and Samuelson).  The former include in the utility function not only the sensation of current events but also the memory of past events and the...
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