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This essay studies the optimal timing for a firm to adopt a new process innovation in the presence of learning. A …
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This essay studies the optimal timing for a firm to adopt a new process innovation in the presence of learning. A …
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We study how learning affects an uninformed monopolist's supply and investment decisions under multiplicative … the random demand. Observing prices reveals this information slowly. We first show how to incorporate Bayesian learning … of learning on supply and investment decisions, as well as the steady state level of capital. Our findings are as follows …
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This paper studies optimal experimentation by a monopolist who faces an unknown demand curve subject to random changes, and who maximises profits over an infinite horizon in continuous time. We show that there are two qualitatively very different regimes, determined by the discount rate and the...
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We consider the impact of history on the survival of a monopolist selling single units in discrete time periods, whose quality is learned slowly. If the seller learns her own quality at the same rate as customers, a sufficiently bad run of luck could induce her to stop selling. When she knows...
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The literature on environmental R&D frequently studies innovation as a two-stage process, with a single R&D event … leading from a conventional polluting technology to a perfectly clean backstop. We allow for uncertainty in innovation in that …
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In this paper, a new model is developed by referring to the literature on Dutch disease and rent-seeking for explaining how a natural resource boom in the energy sector decreases national income and induces a resource movement effect under a rent-seeking monopoly. In such a model, it is shown...
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Diese Dissertation wurde von Johannes Pfeiffer während seiner Zeit am ifo Institut verfasst. Sie wurde im Dezember 2016 …
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