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This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and … consumer welfare. The model consists of an investment stage with uncertain returns and subsequent quantity competition. The … regulatory holiday induces highest investments, followed by risk-sharing and long-run-incremental cost regulation. Risk …
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We construct a political economy model to analyze the political acceptability of road pricing policies. We use a citizen-candidate framework with a population composed by three groups differing for their income level. We show that road pricing policies are never applied when there is no...
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We study decision making processes with non-standard all-pay structures. We motivate this interest through a group of regulatory, political, legal, military, and economic applications where individual actions determine the consequences for a larger group or the public. The common features of...
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employees and finally engage in imperfect product market competition. Equilibria with and without training, and multiple … equilibria can emerge. If competition is sufficiently soft and trained workers are substitutes, firms may invest in non …
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The objective of the paper is to elaborate a simulation model to analyze inter- and intra-modal competition in the … effect of a kerosene tax. Hence our framework could serve as a tool to measure the effectiveness of competition on a relevant … market or to design marketing strategies. More generally it can be applied in cases of oligopolistic competition when …
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competition among counties. The present paper highlights the situation in which the citizens of two countries have the opportunity …
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This paper proposes the Stochastic-Share Contest, a novel contest format that combines the Winner-Take-All Contest and the Proportional-Prize Contest, with the former nesting the latter two as special cases. Motivated by the experimental contest literature, we include risk aversion and a "joy of...
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We estimate a dynamic oligopoly entry game in the early U.S. local telephone market. We observe the identities of potential entrants into local markets and therefore the waiting time of each potential entrant before it commits actual entry. To capture the feature of the data, we allow firms to...
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-trust, intellectual property, industry regulation, and international trade. Economists have analyzed these issues for many decades. An …
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