This paper models payment evasion as a source of profit by letting the firm choose the purchase price and the fine imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside option. We show that payment evasion leads to a form of...

This thesis consists of three independent contributions in the area of microeconomic theory. All three contributions share the feature of agents holding multidimensional private information which motivates the title of the thesis. Part 1, entitled “Consistency and Communication in...

We study a tractable two-dimensional model of price discrimination. Consumers combine a rigid with a more flexible choice, such as choosing the location of a house and its quality or size. We show that the optimal pricing scheme involves no bundling if consumer types are affiliated. Conversely,...

This thesis analyzes the underlying strategic and behavioral motivation of firms' (anti) competitive conduct in oligopolistic markets.The first part of this thesis analyzes the strategic motivation for competitive and anti-competitive behavior of firms in an oligopolistic market where product...

Part I. Setting the scene: The promise of a better competitive environment -- New economic reality: the rise of big data and big analytics -- Light touch antitrust -- Looking beyond the facade of competition -- Part II. The collusion scenarios: The messenger scenario -- Hub and spoke -- Tacit...

We consider a monopolistic supplier's optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms that differ in their ex ante distribution of retail costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform...

Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der politischen Dimension der Infrastrukturbenutzungsgebühren. Auf Basis positiver Theorien der Regulierung werden Hypothesen hinsichtlich des Einflusses von Interessengruppen auf die Tarifstruktur aufgestellt. Einen besonderen Stellenwert bekommt dabei das...

Dieser Beiträg beschäftigt sich mit optimalen Preisen für Verkehrsinfrastruktureinrichtungen. Angefangen von First-Best Preisen werden weitere Möglichkeiten der Preisbildung dargestellt und deren Eignung für Verkehrsinfrastuktureinrichtungen diskutiert. Bereits aus normativer Sicht wird...

International reference pricing (IRP) has become a popular policy instrument in Europe as government seeks to curb healthcare costs and notably reduce expenditure on medicines. IRP builds on systematic price comparisons with other countries and aims at fixing low reimbursement levels for drugs...