In this paper, we offer a hybrid approach to merger simulation in which we allow rather extensive pre-testing to suggest the quot;correctquot;, or most desirable, form for the underlying demand curves. Our application is the merger between the large mobile telephone companies Cingular and...

This article analyzes the effects of the popular election of a monopoly regulator on the structure of the resulting price system. Consumers are differentiated by income and vote on a regulator who implements a two-part tariff for all consumers. The structure of the winning tariff depends on the...

We investigate the possibility of ordering expected utility-of-wealth maximizers according to their propensities to purchase self-protection. We define one agent as “more cautious†than another (toward a loss of specific size given a specific initial wealth) if the first agent would...

This paper examines possible adjustments to a change in a binding quota in the context of an international duopoly. Consumers directly value embodied quality of goods, which is chosen simultaneously with quantity, and before quan - tity in a sequential model. Possible responses to a small change...

The profit-maximizing price structure of a multiproduct firm subject to fully distributed cost rules is considered. It is shown that a firm that sells in both regulated and unregulated markets would choose a dominated price vector. Similar incentives for inefficient pricing are provided to a...