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Purpose of the article: This paper focuses attention on regional price indices (RPI) that reach across regions, respectively Czech regions, and different levels. Methodology/methods: The article mainly analyses the relation between the RPI and the particular form of market structures at the...
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It is well known that existence of monopoly is accompanied by economic inefficiency in the form of dead weight loss and … reduced consumer surplus. The consumer surplus that exists in case of perfect competition gets reduced in case of monopoly; as … a part of it goes to the monopolist in the form of monopoly profit, a part of it is lost in the form of deadweight loss …
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This paper studies how competition and vertical structure jointly determine generating capacities, retail prices, and welfare in the electricity industry. Analyzing a model in which demand is uncertain and retailers must commit to retail prices before they buy electricity in the wholesale...
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When a consumer can appear on both sides of a two-sided market, such as a user who both buys and sells on eBay, the platform may want to bundle the services it provides to two sides. I develop a general model for such "mixed" two-sided markets, and show that a monopolist platform's incentive to...
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market, monopoly pricing is well defined - as well as tests for predatory behavior; not so with multisided markets. Since the … markets for their potential for determining consumers' harm and welfare effects, as well as defining monopoly and predatory …
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Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals …
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Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals …
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industry. The framework is based on a simple downstream monopoly model with two input suppliers, labor forces and the rail …
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Many oligopoly theories predict that there will be a positive correlation between market size and the equilibrium number of firms, and some also imply that competition is more intense in larger markets. We test these predictions with a sample of 535 driving schools in 249 markets. With an...
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