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This paper analyses in a hidden characteristic set-up the design of the optimal price for a firm which is a monopolist at home but competes abroad against foreign firms. As long as diseconomies of scope are not too strong, the optimal price is identified. The price rule depends on the sign of...
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This article studies the problem of regulating a monopolist with unknown marginal cost. The originality of the paper is to consider that the regulator faces a cash-in-advance constraint. The introduction of such a constraint not only reduces the amount of public good provided but also limits the...
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We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell …. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees on the other side of … the market) increases total industry surplus compared to the fully private optimum at which the monopoly platform imposes …
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We examine incentives of bottleneck facility holders to manipulate access charge accounting in free entry downstream markets. We consider the situation wherein one firm holds an upstream bottleneck facility and new entrants use it at the regulated price (access fee) to provide final products....
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shows that these problems do not automatically imply that sector specific regulation is warranted. The same hold for the … specific regulation of mobile telephone markets. The social welfare loss that would arise from such regulations are estimated …
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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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In this paper we study the welfare effect of a monopoly innovation. Unlike many partial equilibrium models carried out …, the criticism against monopoly innovation based on its increased deadweight loss is less accurate than previously …
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This paper studies revenue-maximizing mechanisms for a monopolist who expects her buyers to resell in a secondary market. We consider two modes of resale: the first is to a third party who does not participate in the primary market; the second is inter-bidders resale, where the winner in the...
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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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to charge the monopoly price. This paper compares a Demsetz auction, which awards an exclusive contract to the agent …
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