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This paper studies the pricing incentives of a monopolist constrained by a revenue cap endogenously determined by her costs in a so-called base year. Such regulation is employed, among others, to govern electricity distribution operators in Germany. We show that the revenue cap may incentivize...
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the market) increases total industry surplus compared to the fully private optimum at which the monopoly platform imposes …
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good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or oligopolies in their fields with huge economic rents, if they pass …
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The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the … the regulator and the monopoly with the regulator acting as the leader of the game. We find that the second-best tax rate …
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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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begins by characterizing the optimal regulation of a monopoly supplier that is better informed than the regulator about its …. Yardstick regulation, procedures for awarding monopoly franchises, and optimal industry structuring are analyzed. The chapter …
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Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties: Parties are directly billed only by the Internet service provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet. Pricing, moreover, is not contingent on the type of content being transmitted. These properties define a regime...
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We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no variations in Quality of Service and no price discrimination; (ii) variations in Quality of Service but no price discrimination; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price...
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reduces economic welfare in all instances. That is, even with monopoly supply, regulation offers no improvement in economic …
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The European Commission (EC) and the European Courts have being reaffirming in the Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica cases that guide-prices established by sector regulators upon electronic communications incumbents cannot per se exclude that conducts with anticompetitive foreclosure effects,...
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