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bunching occurs, the bunching interval is necessarily smaller. Additionally, under certain conditions the monopoly solution may … even achieve the ?rst best (i.e., production ef?ciency). We also demonstrate that the optimal monopoly so- lutions can be …
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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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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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This paper studies the price-setting problem of a monopoly that in each time period has the option of failing to … deliver its good after receiving payment. The monopoly may be induced to deliver the good if consumers expect that the … monopoly will not deliver in the future if it does not deliver today. If the good is non-durable and consumers are anonymous …
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We analyze third degree price discrimination by an upstream monopolist to a continuum of heterogeneous downstream firms. The novelty of our approach is to recognize that customizing prices may be costly. As a consequence, partial price discrimination arises in equilibrium; in particular,we...
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