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present length of time squeezes down the durable price. The willingness to replace the durable in the future, on the one hand …
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The belief that equality of demand and supply determines price and clears the market is universal. Shockingly, this … indirect trade, money also must be used. Micro says that price is equal to marginal cost, rejecting trade theory’s claim that … trade is gainful. To remove these and other contradictions, price theory must be repaired. Money’s role in market clearing …
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After an investigation lasting several months, in June 1998 the Federal Trade Commission brought an antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corporation based on Intel's conduct towards Intergraph, and similar conduct towards Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq, all in the context of disputes where...
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results, we discuss an explanation of the fact that Microsoft Office has a significantly higher price than Microsoft Windows …
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This paper aims to make a public statement about the strategy implemented by Microsoft in order to reinforce its market power across the networked users of Windows Operative System, and Xbox Games Console. It is presented an economic view that supports the anticipating (not predatory) position...
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Given that demand for durable goods is not constant over time, we propose in this article a transformation of the utility function, which accounts for discrete time and for the effect of different levels of income in the utility of buying. With this, the original Coase paradox will collapse. The...
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This article evaluates two different remedies for consumers who have been injured by a price overcharge on the sale of … purchase the good at a price below that which prevails after the overcharge has been eliminated, that is, below the competitive … price. Under a discount remedy, any consumer, without proof of injury, may purchase the good for a limited period of time at …
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We analyze self-selection problem when valuations are non-ordered. The corresponding package-pricing solution has specific graph structure. It is helpful in deriving weak su±cient conditions for both partial e±ciency and Pareto-e±ciency. Unlike the ordered valuations case, Pareto e±ciency is...
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the fraction of legal users and the volume of legal usage. In the absence of price- discrimination, the optimal level of … between the quality of the legal and pirated goods. However, when a seller can price-discriminate, it is always optimal for …
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The recent general trend of cutting top marginal income tax rates in industrialized economies and the policy concern of enhancing competition in the US and the EU product markets subtly motivate the question if low income tax rates are optimal in an economy with imperfectly competitive markets....
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