It is well-known that switching costs may facilitate monopoly pricing in a market with price competition between two suppliers of a homogenous good, provided the switching costs is above some critical level. We show that ...

I denne forprosjektrapporten analyserer vi på faglig grunnlag statens kjøp og bruk av konsulenttjenester. Formålet er a) å trekke ut implikasjoner og råd om konsulentbruk, og b) legge et grunnlag for en empirisk undersøkelse ...

Many goods and services are priced non-linearly, and a common way to implement nonlinear price schedules is to let consumers choose from a menu of two-part tariffs. If consumers know their demand at the time they choose ...

Consider an auction in wich potential bidders must sink an entry investment before learning their values (Levin and Smith, 1994). Suppose the auction designer can make the bidders learn their value before entry (as in ...

Received literature have shown that if competing Telecom networks are restricted to linear pricing and are unable to discriminate between on- and off-net calls, high access charges can be a device for facilitating collusion. ...