Chapter 2 deals with a linear city model à la Hotelling where the two firms share linear transport costs with their customers. Mill pricing and uniform delivery pricing are special limiting cases. We characterize the conditions for the existence of a pure strategy equilibrium in the two-stage...

This collection of papers originates from myinterest in the reform efforts in transitionaleconomies. Each of the chapters is self-contained.Chapter one presents a brief literature surveyof those schools of thought that have contributedto our knowledge about privatization.In chapter two, a public...

Chapter 1 introduces some of the issues which are addressed in the other chapters of this dissertation. These topics include: (1) the general equilibrium incentives in the provision of public education, (2) human capital production functions in economic modeling, (3) how public education...