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- Monopolistic Pricing Shrinks Broadband Benefits | BTalk Australia
- (16min 44) According to Kerry Barwise the proposed National Broadband Network will add about $15 billion per year to the Aussie economy, but a lot of the benefits disappear if the operator of the network demands too high a return on their investment. On today’s BTalk...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
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- MOBILE TELEPHONY : EP PREPARES TO CAP SMS ROAMING FEES.
- After the price of mobile calls, the European Parliament is ready to cap the price of SMS sent from one EU country to another roaming to 11 eurocents per message against 29 eurocents, the current EU average. It also wants to bring down the extortionate cost of...
- Articles 2009-01-13
- Third degree price discrimination in linear-demand markets: effects on number of markets served and social welfare
- 1. Introduction Does monopolistic third degree price discrimination reduce social welfare? The question has continued to intrigue economists and policy makers for more than half a century. The seminal work of Robinson (1933) shows that if a monopolist with a constant marginal cost sells in two distinct and...
- Articles 2008-10-01
- Competition in mature software markets
- ABSTRACT A theoretical framework is built for capturing properties of competition in mature monopolistic digital product markets. Based on an empirical study of the market of accounting software for small and medium enterprises, a consumer choice model is suggested, where a rational consumer is already using a particular...
- Articles 2008-06-22
- Premier Healthcare Alliance Calls for Full Transparency of Medicare Hospital Quality Measurement
- Use of Proprietary Databases, Methodologies or Tools Undermines Cost Savings, Creates Monopolistic Pricing Power for Private Vendors WASHINGTON -- Members of the Premier healthcare alliance Quality Improvement Committee issued a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS, strongly objecting to the inclusion of quality measures...
- Articles 2008-06-09
- Durable goods oligopoly with innovation: theory and empirics
- Ronald Goettler Carnegie Mellon and Brett Gordon Columbia. Discussant: Ana Aizcorbe. This paper proposes a model of dynamic oligopoly and applies it to the microprocessor industry. Our findings highlight the "competing-with-itself" aspect of being a monopolist of a durable good: the monopolist must innovate to stimulate demand through...
- Articles 2008-03-01
- Pricing paradigm poised for change
- NEW YORK -- In an era of expanding competition from generics, expiring patent protection for many top-selling drugs and a slowdown in new drug discoveries, minimal margin exists for error in drug pricing decisions, according to a Kalorama Information report titled "Drug Pricing and Reimbursement Strategies: Preparing for the Coming...
- Articles 2008-02-04
- Talks of Cold War with Russia is 'nonsense': Rice
- DAVOS, Switzerland AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rejected the idea of a new Cold War with Moscow as "hyperbolic nonsense" on Wednesday, while criticising the lack of political freedom in Russia. In a speech to the formal opening of the World Economic Forum in Davos,...
- Articles 2008-01-23
- The relation between the knowledge of reservation prices and the degree of success of bundling strategies
- ABSTRACT In the last few years, there has been a significant increase of the commercial offers involving the sale of several independent goods or services in a bundle. The nature of this phenomenon is usually understood as a response to the grade of competition or the level of...
- Articles 2008-01-01
- Why are Americans addicted to baseball? An empirical analysis of fandom in Korea and the United States
- Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.--Confucius I. INTRODUCTION Static microeconomic theory predicts that profit-maximizing monopolists will price in the elastic range of demand. The recurrent finding that many perhaps most professional sports teams--local monopolists all--choose ticket prices in the inelastic range...
- Articles 2008-01-01
- Hordes of Indigent Psychologists
- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE text PUBLIC "-//The Gale Group//DTD Mercury Version 1.0//EN" "Article.dtd"> <Text rich="yes"> <Preformatted type="other"> Hours after my decision to defect, the elders of the West blamed me for the drought and the power failure. Monopolists at heart, it was they who...
- Articles 2008-01-01
- Third-party access to infrastructure: the case of the Mt Newman rail line in the Pilbara
- 1 Introduction It is often the case that a market is dominated by a single piece of infrastructure and some form of monopolistic power is conferred on the firm owning the infrastructure, both in the existing, as well as related, markets. This can occur to the extent that...
- Articles 2007-12-01
- C4CC Congratulates FCC for Taking a Stand for Consumers
- To: BUSINESS EDITORS Contact: Laura Pflum, for Consumers for Competitive Choice, +1-502-384-0054, laurapflum@gmail.com WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumers forCompetitive Choice (C4CC) applauds the Federal CommunicationsCommission FCC for its bold ruling that favors consumer protectionover big business interests in the matter of cable subscriptions forthose living in apartment buildings....
- Articles 2007-10-30
- Higher prices but lower profits
- Double marginalization and the decentralized supply chain DOUBLE MARGINALIZATION is defined as the "exercise of market power at successive vertical layers in a supply chain." Dating back to Lerner (1934), the problem that arises as a result of double marginalization is tied to an impetus to mark...
- Articles 2007-10-01
- ACI: Mergers and Acquisitions in China Conference -- New Panel to Discuss China's Passage of Anti-Monopoly Law
- American Conference Institute, organizers ofthe 3rd National Symposium on Mergers and Acquisitions in China takingplace December 10-11, 2007 at the Westin Times Square in New York,announced today that a new session has been added to the program. The Impact of China's New Anti-Monopoly Law on Mergers & Acquisitions On August...
- Articles 2007-09-25
- Competition is solution to U.S. education problems
- Are consumers better off with a competitive or monopolistic provision of goods and services? Let's apply that question to a few areas of our lives. Prior to deregulation, when there was a monopoly and restricted entry in the provision of telephone services, were consumers better off or...
- Articles 2007-06-13
- Rules of the road; Corruption.(briberies)
- See? Clean hands At least law-breaking officials respect the laws of economics IN MANY parts of the world, greasing the palms of corrupt officials is a fact of life. For lorry drivers in poor countries, for example, it can be...
- Articles 2007-05-05
- Perishability of Online Grocers*, The
- ABSTRACT In this article we explore the profitability of different operations models used by online grocers and develop a linear demand model in a competitive setting to better understand the trade-offs made by two competing online grocers in choices for distribution strategy leverage or direct and product focus (perishable...
- Articles 2007-05-01
- PRICE CAPS AND MICRO-CREDITS.
- In a new position paper, SME employers' and crafts organisation UEAPME added to repeated calls for full ownership unbundling, price caps and the bending state aid rules to enable more help with energy investments. According to UEAPME, the EU's energy policy will drastically impact on SMEs...
- Articles 2007-04-25
- Slashing the high cost of prescription drugs
- There has never been an organization that has battled high drug prices more aggressively than the Life Extension Foundation. Back in the early 1980s, Life Extension was the first to suggest that Americans buy their drugs from countries where these same medications cost a fraction of the price....
- Articles 2007-04-01
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