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the decentralized coordination mechanism inherent in all competitive markets. Coordinating supply and demand is not the … mechanism of this coordination is valuable for economic thinking and economic theory. However, the implications of the perfect … distinguishable types. This contribution explains absolute market power (single-firm monopoly and dominance), collective market power …
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For many goods (such as experience goods or addictive goods), consumers' preferences may change over time. In this paper, we examine a monopolist's optimal pricing schedule when current consumption can affect a consumer's valuation in the future and valuations are unobservable. We assume that...
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We present a model of dynamic monopoly pricing for a good that displays network effects. In contrast with the standard … specific threshold, and is chosen to keep user base stationary once this threshold demand level has been attained. We show that …
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Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties: Parties are directly billed only by the Internet service provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet. Pricing, moreover, is not contingent on the type of content being transmitted. These properties define a regime...
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This paper characterizes dynamic monopoly price patterns when demand declines. Declining demand is caused by the …
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This paper solves for the profit maximising strategy of a durable-goods monopolist when incoming demand varies over … asymmetry pushes the price level above that charged by a firm facing the average level of demand. Applications of this framework … include deterministic demand cycles, one-off shocks and IID demand draws. The optimal policy outperforms renting and can be …
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We study rationing as a tool of the monopolist's pricing strategy when demand is uncertain. Three pricing strategies …
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We develop a two-period model of bundling strategy when a monopolistic firm faces uncertain demand in the second period …
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This paper identifies and analyzes the effects of the rate of economic deprecation of capital stock on a monopolist's investment option and capacity decision in a dynamic and uncertain market environment, where continuous economic depreciation cannot be fully offset. We find that the firm's...
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