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good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or oligopolies in their fields with huge economic rents, if they pass …
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I investigate a simple model of advance-purchase contracts as a mode of financing costly projects. The analysis can easily be reinterpreted as a model of monopolistic provision of excludable public goods under private information. An entrepreneur has to meet some capital requirement in order to...
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market, monopoly pricing is well defined - as well as tests for predatory behavior; not so with multisided markets. Since the … markets for their potential for determining consumers' harm and welfare effects, as well as defining monopoly and predatory …
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We provide a novel explanation for why manufacturers want to enforce a minimum resale price (min RPM) on retailers. A manufacturer sells her good via a multi-product retailer to final consumers by charging a linear wholesale price. The manufacturer then maximizes her profit through min RPM...
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addition, the paper finds that it is feasible in the monopoly optimum that the bundle for low-demand agents is more expensive …
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We examine welfare effects of real-time pricing in electricity markets. Before stochastic energy demand is known, competitive retailers contract with final consumers who exogenously do not have real-time meters. After demand is realized, two electricity generators compete in a uniform price...
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A manufacturer contracting secretly with several downstream competitors faces an opportunism problem, preventing it from exerting its market power. In an infinitely repeated game, the opportunism problem can be relaxed. We show that the upstream firm's market power can be restored even further...
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We analyze the incidence and welfare effects of unit sales taxes in experimental monopoly and Bertrand markets. We find … consumers, independent of whether buyers are automated or human players. In monopoly markets, a monopolist bears a large share …
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Implicit in the text-book monopoly is an assumption of complete and instantaneous information or knowledge available to … make an optimal decision of price and output to maximize its profit and realize it. As a result, the text-book monopoly … develop a dynamic monopoly model. In particular, we assume first that the monopolist has only partial information about the …
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