This paper studies the role of taxation in durable good markets with dynamic monopolies. By conditioning the marginal tax rate on the volume of trade, the social planner can provide incentives for the monopolist to abandon sequential screening and clear the market immediately in unique...

In der Realität sind die Anbieter meistens mit einer fallenden Nachfragekurve konfrontiert. Für eine gegebene Höhe der Konsumentenrente beschert dann eine Preisbesteuerung dem Fiskus höhere Einnahmen als eine mengenbezogene Abgabe. Deshalb führt laut herrschender Meinung die Umstellung...

This paper studies the pricing incentives of a monopolist constrained by a revenue cap endogenously determined by her costs in a so-called base year. Such regulation is employed, among others, to govern electricity distribution operators in Germany. We show that the revenue cap may incentivize...

We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market framework. The platform provider faces uncertainty about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. It maximizes the expected present value of its profit stream in a continuous-time...

We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market. The platform provider is uncertain about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. Setting participation fees on both sides, it gradually learns about these externalities by observing...