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The Rule of Reason, which has come to dominate modern antitrust law, allows defendants the opportunity to justify their conduct by demonstrating “procompetitive” effects. Seizing the opportunity, defendants have begun offering increasingly numerous and creative explanations for their...
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The study develops a standard representative-agents’ New Keynesian model for macroeconomic analysis in a developing African economy. Using Bayesian estimation techniques and Ghanaian dataset, the core objective of the paper is to determine the best suited monetary policy rule for Ghana. After...
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We analyze the effect of price caps on equilibrium production and welfare in oligopoly under demand uncertainty. We … price cap and show that typically, the optimal price cap is bounded away from marginal cost. -- Demand uncertainty, Cournot …
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We analyze the interplay between product market prices and firm boundary decisions. Enterprises are heterogeneous with respect to their productivities and each enterprise chooses between two ownership structures--centralized ownership (integration) performs well in coordinating managerial...
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uncertainty in demand. The monopolist is uninformed because it does not know one of the parameters defining the distribution of … the random demand. Observing prices reveals this information slowly. We first show how to incorporate Bayesian learning …. Learning affects the monopolist's behavior. The higher the expected mean of the demand shock given its beliefs, the higher the …
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adequate response to markets without prices. Modern antitrust law is firmly grounded in neoclassical economics — price theory …. Steeped in price theory, preeminent antitrust theorists have unsurprisingly urged that without prices there can be no markets …
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telecommunications is in line with micro-economic theory, which predicts an increase in efficiency and lower prices when markets are … accompanied by a strong growth in demand in the telecommunications sector. This demand side effect is absent in electricity …
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WHAT IS the most immediate tool of empowerment you can provide a person? Ask an economist. Or ask a laborer who has been moved to the outskirts of the city as a part of the quot;big-progressive resettlement schemequot;. Or ask a student. The most likely answer you will get is:...
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During the second half of the twentieth century economic theory moved increasingly away from price theory, which was … gradually displaced by more modern trends such as game theory, decision theory, behavioral-empirical-experimental economics …, heterodox economics, etc. This was due to serious weaknesses and mistakes of the traditional theory of perfect competition and …
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