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This is a survey of the economic principles that underlie antitrust law and how those principles relate to competition policy. We address four core subject areas: market power, collusion, mergers between competitors, and monopolization. In each area, we select the most relevant portions of...
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In this paper we show that, in the presence of buyer and seller power, a monopolist can enter into a costly contractual relationship with a low-quality supplier with the sole intention of improving its bargaining position relative to a high-quality supplier, without ever selling the good...
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Sylos Labini’s essay is devoted to the analysis of price determination under condition of monopoly and monopsony. The … problem of price indeterminacy in case of bilateral monopoly (associated with monopsony) is thoroughly discussed in relation … analysis of monopoly and monopsony to dismiss the ‘Classical’ argument that a perfect wage flexibility can bring about a full …
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increases the total surplus compared to the fully private optimum at which the monopoly platform imposes positive fees on …
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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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monopoly. Delegation causes underproduction, and the bargaining pie severely contracts rendering mutual gains from delegation …
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The relationship of managerial bonuses and profit maximization is interesting both from an economic and a managerial viewpoint. Our contribution to this literature is showing that progressive managerial bonuses can increase profits in a spatial Bertrand competition, and furthermore they can help...
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This paper analyzes a managerial delegation model in which the government chooses an environmental tax to control environmental damage. By giving the managers of firms an incentive scheme based on a linear combination of profit and sales revenue, we show that firm owners have to pay a higher...
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We consider a duopoly model of spatial competition in which the owners of the firms can strategically use two variables: the duration of managerial incentive contracts and the location of the firms. In equilibrium, one owner chooses a long-term incentive contract for his manager (becoming a...
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-horizon, discrete-time game. Our goal is to identify the Markov perfect stationary equilibria where the seller can maintain his monopoly … power. We establish that the set of parameters supporting a monopoly outcome is larger when the seller offers different …
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