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This paper investigates the effect of credibility of environmental policies on environmental innovation and welfare. When the government precommits to an emission tax, the monopolist's abatement effort is lower than if the environmental policy is at the government's discretion. Time consistent...
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Der Rechtsstreit des Software-Anbieters Microsoft mit den US-amerikanischen Wettbewerbsbehörden machte in letzter Zeit häufig Schlagzeilen. Es geht dabei primär um die Frage, ob das Unternehmen den Internet Explorer im Zwangspaket mit dem Betriebssystem Windows verkaufen darf. Das...
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I study the labor market risks associated with being self-employed. I document that the self-employed are subject to larger earnings fluctuations than employees and that they frequently transition into unemployment. Given the self-employed are not eligible to unemployment insurance, I analyze...
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Evaluierungsstudie zu den Dimensionen und Auswirkungen eines Freihandelsabkommen zwischen der EU und den USA durchgeführt. Die Studie …
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In a framework with an upstream monopoly and a downstream duopoly, we analyze the impact of convex costs on the …
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sought to obtain the lucrative monopoly for the sale of copper. On one side there was Louis de Geer, a successful weapons …
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the context of monopoly theory, also extending the generalization to a large family of principal-agent programs. Our main …
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competitive and monopolistic settings. We find that the presence of monopoly results in a higher tax rate than in the competitive … competition, she may prefer – ceteris paribus – a positive tax rate in the presence of monopoly. …
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Individual moral hazard engendered by health insurance and monopolistic production are both typical phenomena of drug markets. We develop a simple model containing these two elements and evaluate the market equilibrium on the basis of consumer and social welfare. The consumer welfare criterion...
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