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We analyze vertical product differentiation in a model where a good's quality is unobservable to buyers before purchase, a continuum of quality levels is technologically feasible, and minimum quality is supplied under competitive conditions. After purchase the true quality of the good is...
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to firms that can efficiently limit the externality. The optimal mechanism supplements this strict local regulation with …
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The movement to deregulate major industries over the past 40 years has produced large efficiency gains. However, distributional effects have been more difficult to assess. In the electricity sector, deregulation has vastly increased information available to market participants through the...
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This paper characterizes the equilibrium sets of an intrinsic common agencygame with discrete types and direct revelation mechanisms. After presentinga general algorithm to find the pure-strategy equilibria of this game, we use itto characterize these equilibria when the two principals control...
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This paper explores the private and social benefits from barter exchange in a monetized economy. We first prove a no-trade theorem regarding the ability of firms with double-coincidences-of-wants to negotiate improvements in trade among themselves relative to the market outcomes. We then...
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elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that …Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two … difficult to achieve at the same time. In this paper, we consider price regulation in the retail and wholesale market and answer …
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We study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where …
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competition between two platforms to study private and social incentives to share information. Sharing information can be welfare … mandatory information sharing mechanism from big tech to their competitors that help the latter to improve their network value … price regulation over information sharing like the one applied in the EU jurisdiction increases the incentives of big …
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prefer regulatory risk and these preferences may contradict both the firm's and consumers'. -- optimal incentive regulation …
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Strategic delegation to an independent regulator with a pure consumer standard improves dynamic regulation by …
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