From the introduction: Motor vehicle accidents are still a leading cause of death, even if the trend has somewhat declined over the past 20 years. Indeed, motor vehicle accidents are a significant cause of death in comparison with air and space transport accidents, homicides and even HIV...

This dissertation contains three essays in industrial organization. Chapter 1 studies monopoly pricing in a situation of two-sided asymmetric information. In each perfect Bayesian equilibrium that survives the D1 criterion, the price must fully reveal the monopolist's private information. Public...