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The capacity of the transmission network determines the extent of integration of a multinational energy market. Cross …-border externalities render coordination of network maintenance and investments across countries valuable. Is it then optimal to collect … powers in the hands of a single regulator? Should a common system operator manage the entire network? I show that optimal …
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Carbon leakage is one of the major issues facing policymakers today when designing environmental regulation. While the … that rather than being a byproduct of unsuccessful regulation, carbon leakage may be the optimally induced outcome of … incentive compatible regulation, contrasting with the received wisdom in policy debate. …
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This paper studies informational externalities between contracts. Two principals (for instance the governments of two neighbouring countries) deal with two different agents (for instance a railway company in each country). If, in the first period, an agent refuses the contract offered by his...
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We investigate the interactions between optimal regulation and external credit constraints. When part of a regulated …
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The capacity of the transmission network determines the extent of integration of a multinational energy market. Cross …-border externalities render coordination of network maintenance and investments across countries valuable. Is it then optimal to collect … powers in the hands of a single regulator? Should a common system operator manage the entire network? I show that optimal …
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on existing theories of competition in markets with adverse selection. …
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on existing theories of competition in markets with adverse selection. -- Asymmetric information ; competition ; adverse …
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The literature dealing with price setting and quality assumes by default that investors believe that mutual funds are vertically differentiated. We consider also the case where they do not believe it and we show that it may call the market into question. To solve this problem we assume the...
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Our study is motivated by the observation that two-sided platforms often exercise control on access to and transactions on at least one side of the market. For example, Apple's rigorous approval process and recent policies that prohibit cross-platform app-building tools is an indication of...
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We study a two-period perfectly competitive industry where firms are run by agents privately informed about their (persistent) costs, and principals can only use spot contracts. The interplay between payoff externalities and spot contracting has novel implications for industry dynamics. With...
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