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likely are entry restrictions, whereas a greater relevance of firms makes a monopoly more probable. The nature of entry …
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Both sides of a two-sided market are usually modeled as markets without product differentiation. Often however, it will be profit maximizing to differentiate one or two sides in two or more types. In a simple theoretical model, inspired by Yellow Pages, we show that this decision crucially...
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relation of monopoly and competition to invention/innovation and knowledge management under conditions of periodical …
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our theory is the health care market, where drug prices can be very high. Our model predicts that monopoly prices for …We offer a theory of how the combination of budget constraints and insurance drives up prices. A natural context for … literature. As a result, prices of drugs sold by a monopoly treating rare serious diseases are doomed to go sky high. …
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This paper studies the price-setting problem of a monopoly that in each time period has the option of failing to … deliver its good after receiving payment. The monopoly may be induced to deliver the good if consumers expect that the … monopoly will not deliver in the future if it does not deliver today. If the good is non-durable and consumers are anonymous …
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I investigate a simple model of advance-purchase contracts as a mode of financing costly projects. An entrepreneur has to meet some capital requirement in order to start production and sell the related good to a limited number of potential buyers who are privately informed about their...
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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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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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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 the monopolistic provision of excludable public goods under private information. An entrepreneur has to meet some capital requirement in order...
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The paper explores the role of R&D investments reducing fixed production costs in entry deterrence. An incumbent monopolist and a potential entrant can perform R&D to reduce their fixed production costs, with bidirectional and asymmetric technological spillovers. It is shown that deterrence,...
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