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There is a harmful mismatch between how information published by the government is perceived—as highly trustworthy—and the reality that it is often not. This Article shows that the government frequently collects information from third-party private entities and publishes it with no review or...
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anticipate entry by competitors who are not required to offer universal service, i.e. coverage of the entire country and uniform … pricing. The market for postal service exhibits stronger network effects than in telecommunications because of limited …. We show that dependent on the shape of the network costs and the network effects entrants may either offer a low quality …
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We investigate the nature of the adverse selection problem in a market for adurable goodwhere trading and entry of new …
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pay to the infrastructure manager for access to the tracks and how these charges change with increased competition in the … prices per kilometer and increases total output in train kilometers. The regulatory agency reacts to more competition with a … competition in the freight and/or passenger segment is ambiguous and depends on the level of competition. Finally, social welfare …
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We analyze vertical product differentiation in a model where a good's quality is unobservable to buyers before purchase, a continuum of quality levels is technologically feasible, and minimum quality is supplied under competitive conditions. After purchase the true quality of the good is...
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natural monopoly. 3) Price competition tends to a monopolization. The results derive from a general principle of reputation …
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This paper provides a sufficient condition under which a general screening problem can be reduced, without the principal’s payoff loss, to one with the single crossing property. The sufficient condition requires the agent’s types to be ordered in a way that two marginal rates of substitution...
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This paper offers a model of a firm that raises funds for financing an innovative business project and choses between ICO (initial coin offering) and equity financing. The model is based on information problems associated with both ICO and equity financing well documented in literature. The...
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This article is the first one that considers a model of the choice between the different types of crowdfunding, which contains elements of the asymmetric information approach and behavioral finance (overconfident entrepreneurs). The model provides several implications, most of which have not yet...
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This article is the first one that considers a model of the choice between the different types of crowdfunding, which contains elements of the asymmetric information approach and behavioral finance (overconfident entrepreneurs). The model provides several implications, most of which have not yet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925818