Electricity markets in the United States presently employ an auction mechanism to determine the dispatch of power generation units. In this market design, generators submit bid prices to a regulation agency for review, and the regulator conducts an auction selection in such a way that satisfies...

In this paper, we study the local dial-up Internet access market using a game theoretic model. Inparticular, we consider the Nash equilibrium of the service providers and examine their behavioron investment and output level. We calibrate this model to fit the industry structure and datafound in...

We discuss the strategic behavior of agents on a financial market in the presence of a central bank which is borrowing and lending money.

This paper shows that generators exercised increasing market power in the England and Wales wholesale electricity market in the second half of the 1990s despite declining market concentration. It examines whether this was consistent with static, non-cooperative oligopoly models, which are widely...

Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit dem Zusammenwirken von zwei externen Effekten, die jeweils für sich eine effiziente Kapitalallokation behindern können.Zum Einen geht es darum, dass unter Umständen an sich Erfolg versprechende Investitionsgelegenheiten nur deswegen nicht realisiert...

This dissertation includes three essays that consider the role of quality variation within agricultural production when consumers are heterogeneous in their preferences for quality. The first essay, 'The Welfare Benefits of USDA Beef Quality Certification Programs,' estimates the consumer...

This dissertation includes two essays on adverse selection and moral hazard problems in reinsurance markets. The first essay builds a competitive principal-agent model that considers adverse selection and moral hazard jointly, and characterizes graphically various forms of separating Nash...

The average investor reaction is neutral to primary offerings by firms with managerial incentives closely tied to the shareholder value. Investors react negatively (1) when there are insufficient managerial ownership stakes to deter misuse of SEO proceeds and (2) when there are negative signals...