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This paper studies the relationship between three key elements of the marketing mix, namely, price, product, and promotion, in a model where a seller employs informative advertising to launch a new product. We propose a fairly general advertising technology for the study of three promotional...
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When a durable good of uncertain quality is introduced to the market, some consumers strategically delay their buying to the next period with the hope of learning the unknown quality. We analyze the monopolist's pricing and waiting strategies when consumers have strategic delay incentives. We...
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market power is a cornerstone of competition law regimes worldwide. Yet notwithstanding the social costs of monopoly modern …." Importantly, anticompetitive conduct can take place both on the road to monopoly and, later on, once substantial market power has …
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This paper makes use of evolutionary, institutional and behavioural economics to develop a theory of the non … derive testable implications which align well with existing data and consider the implications our theory has for managerial …
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We analyze monopoly power in a market for a complementary fossil resource like oil in a two country/two period model …
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Allegations of market power in wholesale electricity sales are typically tested using price-cost margins. Such tests are inherently suspect in markets, such as electricity, subject to capacity constraints. In such markets, prices can vary with demand while quantity and thus cost measures remain...
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An applied general equilibrium analysis of monopoly power is proposed as an alternative to the partial equilibrium … analyses of monopoly pricing current in antitrust economics. This analysis introduces a new notion of market equilibrium where … firms with monopoly power are cost-minimizing price-takers in competitive factor markets and make supracompetitive profits …
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This paper develops a model of monopoly for necessities. Such goods are characterized by inelastic demand and cannot be … analyzed by the standard model of monopoly. Profit maximization reduces consumers to absolute misery and in one specification …
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Richard Markovits’ view that “neither the pre-conduct nor the post-conduct possession of monopoly power should as a … will achieve monopoly status. Market power may measure how close a firm is to monopoly status but is not a measure of its …
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The purpose of this paper is to outline a consistent microeconomic theory of the firm based on the concept of monopoly … power. It builds on the heritage of Post Keynesian authors, Robinson, Kaldor, and Kalecki, but literally extends the theory … in several directions. First, monopoly power is defined formally in terms of substitution. In this way, monopoly power is …
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