Industry structure and pricing over the business cycle
In: Discussion paper series 10009
In: Industrial organization and international macroeconomics
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In: Discussion paper series 10009
In: Industrial organization and international macroeconomics
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16990
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In: Information economics and policy, Band 54, S. 100894
ISSN: 0167-6245
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In: Information economics and policy, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 439-458
ISSN: 0167-6245
In: Economics & politics, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 247-284
ISSN: 1468-0343
The median voter paradigm (MVP) has been widely used to study the interactions between economic and political behavior. While this approach is easy to work with, it abstracts from institutional detail. This paper explores whether the MVP leads on average to the same policies that would be chosen in a two‐party representative democracy (RD). When it does not, the paper fully characterizes the size and magnitude of the average divergence (or bias) between policy choices in MVP and in RD in terms of the degree of polarization between the parties, their relative electoral prospects, and the distribution of electoral uncertainty. The results are then applied to the influential Meltzer and Richard (1981) theory of the size of government.
In: Economics & politics, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 247-284
ISSN: 0954-1985
In: CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4848
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In: ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 14-039
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In: The Rand journal of economics, Band 37, Heft 2, S. 431-448
ISSN: 1756-2171
We consider an optimal regulation model in which the regulated firm's production cost is subject to random, publicly observable shocks. The distribution of these shocks is correlated with the firm's cost type, which is private information. The regulator designs an incentive‐compatible regulatory scheme, which adjusts itself automatically ex post given the realization of the cost shock. We derive the optimal scheme, assuming that there is an upper bound on the financial losses that the firm can sustain in any given state. We first consider a two‐type, two‐state case, and then extend the results to the case of a continuum of firm types and an arbitrary finite number of states. We show that the first‐best allocation can be implemented if the state of nature conveys enough information about the firm's type and/or the maximal loss that the firm can sustain is sufficiently large. Otherwise, the solution is characterized by classical second‐best features.
In: The Rand journal of economics, Band 48, Heft 4, S. 972-1003
ISSN: 1756-2171
AbstractWe study a consumer boycott on cottage cheese, organized in Israel on Facebook in the summer of 2011 following a steep price increase since 2006. The boycott led to an immediate decline in prices, which remain low even six years later. We find that (i) demand at the start of the boycott would have been 30% higher but for the boycott, (ii) own‐ and especially cross‐price elasticities increased substantially after the boycott, and (iii) post‐boycott prices are substantially below the levels implied by the post‐boycott demand elasticities, suggesting that firms were concerned with public backlash due to high prices.
In: The Rand journal of economics, Band 37, Heft 1, S. 81-99
ISSN: 1756-2171
We examine the effects that passive investments in rival firms have on the incentives of firms to engage in tacit collusion. In general, these incentives depend in a complex way on the entire partial cross ownership (PCO) structure in the industry. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for PCO arrangements to facilitate tacit collusion and also examine how tacit collusion is affected when firms' controllers make direct passive investments in rival firms.