The risk of interference from operations in adjacent channels has been largely ignored in estimating the value of radio licenses. This is surprising since adjacent channel and out-of-band interference have figured prominently in recent license conflicts, including public safety vs. Nextel in the...

An efficient market is thought to be desirable by many legislators, regulators, and academicians. At the same time, they seem adamant that the investment industry unbundle. These two positions are at odds unless it is proposed that investment research be subsidized. Regulators who insist on...

This paper examines the impact of limiting the cashback mechanism on e-commerce pricing strategies and consumer purchase behavior. By refunding a part of the transactional amount, the websites are using the wallet cash as a promotional vehicle for future purchases. This cashback limit phenomenon...

Since we abhor suspense, we will quickly answer the question our title poses: No. As a general matter, bundled discounting schemes lower prices to consumers unless they are predatory - that is to say, unless they exclude rivals and thereby permit the bundled discounter to price free of...

Experimental and field research has shown that individuals often exhibit time inconsistent preferences. Often this is in the direction of “hyperbolic” or quasi-hyperbolic discounting. That is, individuals have a steeper discount rate for a given delay length when that delay comes sooner....

In his recent paper entitled “How Loyalty Discounts Can Perversely Discourage Discounting,” Professor Einer Elhauge argues that exclusive contracts with loyalty discounts offered by a single incumbent seller can create anticompetitive effects in a broad range of settings. In this comment we...

We set out to understand the size of DLOMs by comparing the subject of the discounts, privately held companies, to the bases from which discounts should be applied. These relevant bases include publicly traded firms considered as guideline public companies and public market benchmarks from which...