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Uncertain Commitment Power in a Durable Good Monopoly

Seres, Gyula - 2019

This paper considers dynamic pricing strategies in a durable good monopoly model with uncertain commitment power to set …

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Monopoly, Quantity Discounts, and Stepwise Taxation

Chang, Winston W. - 2016

This paper investigates a stepwise tax/subsidy structure on a monopoly practicing quantity discounts. It covers four …

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Taxation and Durable Goods Monopoly

Kwak, Changhyun - 2020

This paper studies the role of taxation in durable good markets with dynamic monopolies. By conditioning the marginal tax rate on the volume of trade, the social planner can provide incentives for the monopolist to abandon sequential screening and clear the market immediately in unique...

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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform

Economides, Nicholas - 2014

We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose download limits on content consumers: doing so increases the degree to which those consumers view content providers products as substitutes. This, in turn, intensifies competition...

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A Note on the Limits to Monopoly Pricing

Méra, Xavier - 2015

Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard tended to emphasize the same requirement for a monopoly price to emerge, as far as … regard to the question of the limits to monopoly pricing. The inelasticity of demand criterion of both authors left less room … for monopoly prices in their theoretical constructs of a hampered market economy than there really is. If one wants to …

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The Degree of Distortions under Second-Degree Price Discrimination

Chao, Yong - 2015

We consider second-degree price discrimination for two types of consumers. When the net-of-cost valuation functions cross at least once at some positive quantity, it is always optimal to serve both types of consumers. Moreover, the type with the higher valuation peak always gets the socially...

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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform

Economides, Nicholas - 2015

We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers and mobile-phone networks, offer plans with download limits: through one of two mechanisms, doing so causes the providers of the content consumer purchase to either reduce their prices or...

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Tying, Bundling, and Double Marginalization

O'Brien, Daniel P. - 2018

We provide a general definition of bundling that encompasses the bundling of two or more objects over sets of three or more objects. Bundled objects may be units of the same product, different products, or both. Such bundling encompasses a range of controversial pricing practices that have drawn...

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Platform Pricing in Mixed Two-Sided Markets

Gao, Ming - 2018

When a consumer can appear on both sides of a two-sided market, such as a user who both buys and sells on eBay, the platform may want to bundle the services it provides to two sides. I develop a general model for such "mixed" two-sided markets, and show that a monopolist platform's incentive to...

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Emission taxes and feed-in subsidies in the regulation of a polluting monopoly

García-Alaminos, Ángela; Rubio, Santiago J. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 2, pp. 255-279

The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the … the regulator and the monopoly with the regulator acting as the leader of the game. We find that the second-best tax rate …

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