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A principal, who wants prices to be as lowas possible, contracts with agents who would like to charge the monopoly … the particular duopoly game played ex post. We apply this condition to three canonical examples -- procurement, royalty … contracts and dealerships -- and find that whenever marginal revenue for the final good is decreasing in the quantity sold, the …
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advantage of the monopoly rents of some railways in order to finance new parts of the network. These ideas are mainly establish …
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floor, however, a Demsetz auction is worse than no regulation at all of the bottleneck monopoly. Our results apply beyond …
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floor, however, a Demsetz auction is worse than no regulation at all of the bottleneck monopoly. Our results apply beyond …
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capacities can be larger or smaller with a duopoly than with a monopoly. If the two firms co-ordinate on a pareto dominant …
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This paper considers price determination by monopolistic sellers who know the distribution of valuations among the potential buyers. We derive a novel condition under which the optimal price set by the monopolist is unique. In many settings, this condition is easy to interpret, and it is valid...
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In a laboratory setting, a monopolistic auctioneer sells to buyers as the level and nature of demand changes. I ask whether sellers correctly recognize the role played by correlation among buyers' values. The prices set by subjects closely match the risk-neutral benchmark predictions when demand...
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I examine the outcomes of cases of entry by merchant shipping lines into established markets around the turn of the century. These established markets are completely dominated by an incumbent cartel composed of several member shipping lines. The cartel makes the decision whether or not to begin...
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In some cases, complementary products are sold to different sets of agents to aid in transactions between them. In the context of a simplified model, this article shows that a monopolist has an incentive to integrate into and foreclose other sellers of a complementary product used in fixed...
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We study competitive awarding procedures of short haul railway passenger services in Germany from 1995 to 2011 by means of a newly collected data set. In particular, we use regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the number of bidders, the identity of the winning bidder and the...
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