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Gautier, Axel - 2002

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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Regulation at home, competition abroad: A theoretical framework

Calzolari, Giacomo; Scarpa, Carlo - 2001

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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Network Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - 2008

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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The Economics of Mobile Telephone Regulation

Haucap, Justus - 2003

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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Regulated input price, vertical separation, and leadership in free entry markets

Matsumura, Toshihiro; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2012

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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Hydropower economics

Førsund, Finn R. - 2005

. Finally, the case of monopoly is studied.Different from standard monopoly behaviour of contracting output, if total available …

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Competition In or For the Field: Which is Better

Engel, Eduardo; Fischer, Ronald; Galetovic, Alexander - 2002

to charge the monopoly price. This paper compares a Demsetz auction, which awards an exclusive contract to the agent …

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Monopoly, inequality and redistribution via the public provision of private goods

Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2004

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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Does government precommitment promote environmental innovation?

Petrakis, Emmanuel; Xepapadeas, Anastasios P. - 1998

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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Monopoly with Resale

Calzolari, Giacomo; Pavan, Alessandro - 2003

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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