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Spatial Pricing and the Location of Processors in Agricultural Markets
Graubner, Marten; Balmann, Alfons; Sexton, Richard J. - 2011
Spatially dispersed production and processing, endemic for most agricultural or renewableresource markets, causes oligopsonistic competition. The possibility and useof spatial price discrimination in these markets is well documented. It is also wellknown that the location of processors relative...
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Nonlinear Pricing of Information Goods
Sundararajan, Arun - 2004
This paper analyzes optimal pricing for information goods underincomplete information, when both unlimited-usage (fixed-fee) pricingand usage-based pricing are feasible and administering usage-basedpricing may involve transaction costs. It is shown that offeringfixed-fee pricing in addition to a...
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14.271 Industrial Organization I, Fall 2001
Ellison, Glenn; Ellison, Sara Fisher - 2001
core issues in antitrust. Topics include: the organization of the firm, monopoly, price discrimination, oligopoly, and …. The course presumes that students have a familiarity with micro theory, basic game theory and some econometrics. …
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Disziplinierung von Marktmacht durch Privatisierung von Schieneninfrastruktur - Privatisierungsmodelle und deren Bewertung
K?hnberg, Dany - 2009
?tze aus der Neuen Politischen ?konomie sowie der Theorie der Verf?gungsrechte wird auf Effizienzunterschiede auf Grund …
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Essays on Privacy, Information, and Anonymous Transactions
Wagman, Liad - 2009
This dissertation uses game theoretic models to examine the effects of agent anonymity on markets for goods and for information. In open, anonymous settings, such as the Internet, anonymity is relatively easy to obtain --- oftentimes another email address is sufficient. By becoming anonymous,...
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International Monetary Policy Analysis with Durable Goods
Jansen, Dennis W. (contributor) - 2009
The dissertation studies a model of an economy which produces and exportsdurable goods. It analyzes the optimal monetary policy for such a country.Generally, monetary policy has a bigger economic effect on durable goods relative tonon-durable goods because durable goods can be stored and...
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Durables in Open Economy Macroeconomics.
Nuntramas, Phacharaphot - 2007
This dissertation studies the roles that durable goods play in open economy macroeconomics. The three essays examine if and how durable goods improve the ability to understand business cycle features.The first essay shows how investment behavior and international risk sharing, two business cycle...
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Dynamic monopoly with relational incentives
Alexander Wolitzky - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of … - 2010
-setting problem of a monopoly that in each time period has the option of failing to deliver its good after receiving payment. The … monopoly may be induced to deliver the good if consumers expect that the monopoly will not deliver in the future if it does not … deliver today. If the good is non-durable and consumers are anonymous, the monopoly's optimal strategy is to set price equal …
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Essays on Durable Goods Consumption and Firm Innovation
Rong, Zhao - 2008
This dissertation comprises three individual chapters. Chapter Two examines how free riding across neighbors influenced the diffusion of color television sets in rural China. Chapter Three tests for asymmetric information between a firm’s management and other investors concerning its patent...
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The Effect of Reverse Intergenerational Influence on purchase and Brand Equity of Durable Goods
Kulkarni, Swati Ashutosh - 2014
embedded within socialization theory.Reverse IGI indicates the transmission of beliefs and perception from child to parent. In …
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