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prices. This book will be of interest to academics and students of price theory, money and finance, political economy, and …, development theory, financial markets, the global economy, and the macro dynamics of a number of countries. He is the author of … Marx’s Theory of Price and its Modern Rivals (Palgrave Macmillan). …
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A commonly held theory presumes that drug companies in the U.S set prices for patented drugs at profit- maximizing …We apply global public good theory to examine the pricing of branded drugs. To this end, we describe the optimal global …
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theory, the New Interpretation of Marx's value theory, and the Sraffian approach to prices of production. We add two …
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This paper studies the effects of price parity clauses (PPC) on consumer surplus and platform profit by investigating the strategic interactions among horizontally differentiated multi-channel retailers selling through online platforms as well as in their the direct channel. Consumers first...
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The history of predatory pricing law and economics is peculiar on account of the seemingly inescapable contradiction between the legal habit of condemning a business practice on account of its possible unfair and inefficient effects and the necessity of providing an economic rationale for the...
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Chaotic behavior of prices can emerge as a robust result from a very simple and standard price adjustment process. Consider the dynamics of prices adjusting according to supply and demand in economies with increasing returns to scale. Increasing returns in production implies the existence of a...
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We study the private market response to the National School Lunch Program, documenting economically meaningful spillovers to non-recipients. We focus on the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), an expansion of the lunch program under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Under the CEP,...
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Firms in many industries experience protracted periods of pricing power, the ability to successfully enact price increases. In these situations, firms must decide not only whether to raise prices, but to whom. Specifically, in a competitive context, they must determine whether it is more...
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We study Butters's (1977) model under concave advertising costs, and determine a class of cost functions such that each seller sends the same finite number of ads in equilibrium. Then we consider the limit economy where the number of buyers and sellers grow indefinitely, and show that the...
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