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Oligopoly price discrimination, competitive pressure and total output
Aguirre, Iñaki - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (2019) 2019-52, pp. 1-16
This paper extends the traditional analysis of the output effect under monopoly (third- degree) price discrimination to … effect on total output. …
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Chapter 27 Recent Developments in the Theory of Regulation
Armstrong, Mark; Sappington, David E.M. - In: Handbook of industrial organization : volume 3, (pp. 1557-1700). 2007
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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Network neutrality on the Internet: A two-sided market analysis
Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - In: Information Economics and Policy 24 (2012) 2, pp. 91-104
increases the total surplus compared to the fully private optimum at which the monopoly platform imposes positive fees on …
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Third-Degree Price Discrimination Revisited
Kwon, Youngsun - In: Journal of Economic Education 37 (2006) 1, pp. 83-92
curve of the pricediscriminating monopoly, corresponding to its aggregated marginal revenue curve. The curve is non …-linear and lies above the aggregated demand curve of simple monopoly. The results may be used to explain to students the effects …
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Monopolistic third-degree price discrimination under vertical product differentiation
Nguyen, Xuan - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 2, pp. 153-155
This paper shows in a vertical product differentiation model with variable costs of quality that monopolistic third-degree price discrimination always reduces welfare regardless of whether the quality is fixed or is endogenous. The results provide rich implications for antitrust policy.
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Customer-class pricing, parallel trade and the optimal number of market segments
Braouezec, Yann - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 30 (2012) 6, pp. 605-614
We consider the optimal market segmentation problem of a monopolist that faces a continuum of customers when it is costly to prevent resale (or parallel trade) among groups. In our framework, the monopolist chooses the number k≥1 of market segments, but also their design and the discriminatory...
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Pricing as a risky choice: Uncertainty and survival in a monopoly market
Andersen, Per; Vetter, Henrik - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-29, pp. 1-22
Roy (Safety First and the Holding of Assets, 1952) argues that decisions under uncertainty motivate firms to avoid bankruptcy. In this paper, the authors ask about the behaviour of a monopolist who pre-commits to price when she has only probabilistic knowledge about demand. They argue that...
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Emission taxes and feed-in subsidies in the regulation of a polluting monopoly
García-Alaminos, Ángela; Rubio, Santiago J. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 2, pp. 255-279
The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the … that the efficient solution can be implemented combining a tax on emissions and a subsidy on clean output. The tax is lower … 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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Monetary policy and the behavior of a monopolistic bank : a theoretical approach
Dalla, Eleni; Varelas, Erotokritos G. - 2013
This paper investigates the influence of monetary policy on the optimal behavior of a monopolistic bank. More specifically, we discuss how the overdraft rate and the minimum reserve requirements affect the equilibrium values of lending rate and deposit rate as well as the corresponding...
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Emission taxes and feed-in subsidies in the regulation of a polluting monopoly
García-Alaminos, Ángela; Rubio, Santiago J. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 2, pp. 255-279
The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the … that the efficient solution can be implemented combining a tax on emissions and a subsidy on clean output. The tax is lower … the regulator and the monopoly with the regulator acting as the leader of the game. We find that the second-best tax rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589030