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Vertical Structure and the Risk of Rent Extraction in the Electricity Industry

Boom, Anette; Buehler, Stefan - 2018

This paper studies how competition and vertical structure jointly determine generating capacities, retail prices, and welfare in the electricity industry. Analyzing a model in which demand is uncertain and retailers must commit to retail prices before they buy electricity in the wholesale...

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Emission Taxes, Feed-in Subsidies and the Investment in a Clean Technology by a Polluting Monopoly

García-Alaminos, Ángela; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2019

The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the … calculated solving a two-stage policy game between the regulator and the monopoly with the regulator acting as the leader of the … output but does not affect the total output. On the other hand, the subsidy leads to the monopoly to reduce the dirty output …

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Leader, or just dominant? : the dominant-firm model revisited

Fehr, Nils-Henrik M. von der - 2010 - Publisert 7. okt. 2010

. -- dominant firm ; monopoly with fringe ; sequential moves …

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Platform intermediation in a market for differentiated products

Galeotti, Andrea; Moraga-González, José Luis - 2008 - Rev.: February 2008

that the monopoly platform does not introduce distortions over and above those arising from the market power of the …

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A monopolist in public transport : undersupply or oversupply?

Karamychev, Vladimir A.; Reeven, Peran A. van - 2009 - This version: July 2009

likely to occur when this distribution is rather flat. In particular, monopoly production results in the oversupply of …

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Pricing as a risky choice : uncertainty and survival in a monopoly market

Anderson, P. G.; Vetter, Henrik - 2015

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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Lagged network externalities and rationing in a software monopoly

Di Maria, Corrado; Köttl, Johannes - 2002

monopoly, analysing questions of introductory pricing and quantity rationing. The model suggests that neither of these two … instruments is able to explain why we see so much free software in the markets. -- software monopoly ; lagged network externality …

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A study on the impact of mobile telecommunication on the welfare of Sub Saharan african countries

Plambeck, Hauke Heinrich Friedrich - 2010

by Dr. Carolyn Gideon, to stress the immanent threat of network markets turning into a monopoly. This theses ends in …

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Informing consumers about their own preferences

Peitz, Martin; Inderst, Roman - 2012

We analyze a model of monopolistic price discrimination where only some consumers are originally sufficiently informed about their preferences, e.g., about their future demand for a utility such as electricity or telecommunication. When more consumers become informed, we show that this benefits...

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Screening contracts in the presence of positive network effects

Csorba, Gergely - 2004

the intensity of network effects, and that a discriminating monopoly may supply large quantities for all consumers than a …

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