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September 2020
Articles: 

Controlling Sellers Who Provide Advice: Regulation and Competition

A monopoly seller advises buyers about which of two goods best fits their needs but may be tempted to steer buyers towards the higher margin good.

Delegation of Regulation

We discuss a government’s incentives to delegate regulation to bureaucrats.

Single Bidders and Tacit Collusion in Highway Procurement Auctions

Collusion in auctions can take different forms, such as refraining from bidding. Certain aspects of highway procurement auctions facilitate collusive outcomes.

The Strategic Industry Supply Curve

In this paper, we develop the concept of the strategic industry supply curve, representing the locus of Nash equilibrium outputs and prices arising from additive shocks to demand.

On the Absence of Directional Price Discrimination in the U.S. Airline Industry

Certain forms of price discrimination in oligopoly markets can lead to more aggressive competition and lower profits, yet few empirical studies examine how extensively such strategies are used.

A Note on Endogenous Market Structure under Heterogeneous Firms*

Industries, such as semiconductors and biotechnology, are characterized by heterogeneous research productivity and vertically differentiated products.