This paper provides an analysis of legal insider trading on the Euronext Amsterdamstock exchange by using data published in the register held by the AFM, the dutchfinancial markets authority. The sample includes 822 transactions executed bycorporate insiders between the beginning of January 1999...

We show in a simple model of entry with sunk cost, that a regulator prefers limiting the output, or capacity, of the incumbent firm rather than imposing a "Minimum Quality Standard" in order to help the entrant to provide high quality. As a by-product, our analysis makes a contribution to the...

This article studies the problem of regulating a monopolist with unknown marginal cost. The originality of the paper is to consider that the regulator faces a cash-in-advance constraint. The introduction of such a constraint not only reduces the amount of public good provided but also limits the...