We study the equilibrium and its stability property in a duopoly market in which minimum quality standards (MQS) are …

' switching costs and the technological choice of the incumbent firm. For example 'customer pays' regulation encourages an … consider the addition of a 'buy back' rule to standard incumbent-firm-pays regulation and show that this is always preferred to … standard firms-pay regulation. Buy-back rules dominate other standard regulatory rules when firms can price discriminate on the …

industry ; access charge ; manipulation of accounting ; regulation …

nondiscrimination regulation that forces the ISP to provide an equal quality upgrade to both CPs, however, can reduce the ISP …

then reduces maximum pollution per unit of products sold in the market. In the duopoly case, this leads to increased …

Regulation and competition policy are two alternative modalities by which the state intervenes in the market. In order … varieties of market failures and identify those for which regulation is best address (cooperation failures such as The Fishing … various industrial organizations (monopoly, duopoly, Walrasian limit) under the symmetric Cournot competition. We also deal …