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conjunctionwith the history of regulation and antitrust intervention in thetelecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of … leverage their monopoly powerin the local market to the long distance market. We also discuss thewave of mergers in the …
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way to achieve transportation efficiencies. Other groups, supporting the status quo, argue that the regulation of rates is … essential to control the monopoly power of the railways. There has been very little discussion of other policy options, with the … options such as these be investigated to address the very thorny issue of freight rate and entry regulation. …
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Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Diskussion der institutionellen Ausgestaltung der Schieneninfrastruktur. Es wird diskutiert, welche Privatisierungsmodelle welche Anreize auf Schieneninfrastrukturunternehmen aus?ben und wie diese auf den Nutzen der individuellen Nachfrager nach Schieneninfrastruktur...
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This study is an enquiry about the role that service quality, asymmetric information, scope of regulation and regulator …'s preferences play in the regulation of monopolies, with an application to the case of the Chilean electricity distribution industry … regulation is reviewed in Chapter 2. A special emphasis is given to the problems of quality and information, and the lack of its …
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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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The work presented here is part of a wider research programme oriented around three specific questions. First, how do individual agents appropriate returns from innovation and how is this affected by the availability (or not) of intellectual property rights such as copyrights and patents?...
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We develop a new partial equilibrium, four-region world trade model for the soybean complex comprising soybeans, soybean oil, and soybean meal. In the model, some consumers view genetically modified Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and products as weakly inferior to conventional ones; the RR seed is...
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Interspatial and intertemporal grain distribution in Ghana is a private sectoractivity carried out mainly by traders. These traders sometimes collude to maximize theirjoint profits. By so doing they influence the conduct of the grains market. To examine theeffect of their actions on the informal...
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monopoly and monopsony power in the world market, both the importing and the exporting countries may well be better off if …
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traded. Finally, it is proved that when a private firm exerts monopoly and monopsony power in the world market, both the …
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