"We present a theory of corporate campaigns in which activists use campaigns as a means of harming a firm's reputation in hope of motivating it to increase its private regulation - corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities aimed at reducing negative externalities or other forms of social...

This paper studies access pricing under three regimes: regulated access (VSR), negotiated access with discriminatory pricing (VSD) and negotiated access with non-discriminatory pricing (VSN). We compare each regime along three metrics: network quality, consumer surplus, and social welfare. To do...

Twenty years of debate regarding the restructuring of the Chinese freight railway have failed to yield a consensus. Early policy statements favoring the creation of above-the-rail competition over a monopoly infrastructure – the “European” model of rail restructuring – have broadened...