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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"oligopolies"”.
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Essays on Networks and Industrial Organization
… induces cohesion. Chapter II: Spectral Oligopolies --- We study how demand interactions incentivize multiproduct oligopolists to reduce their variable production costs. Our starting point is an equivalence between multimarket competition over dependent products and single-market …
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Accreditation, Affordability, and Accessibility of New Non-Profit Colleges in the United States
… the last seventy years. The economic theory of oligopolies suggests that lowering the barriers to entry for non-profit colleges would be an effective solution for solving the crises of quality, affordability, and accessibility facing higher education. Using the theoretical framework of …
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Governance in global value chains: Exploring multiple layers of lead-firm orchestration
… the most capable supply firms. Oligopolies along the entire GVC are consciously created by the lead firm. The dynamics of competition between supply firms are changing, as the market for integral components with high asset-specificity are merging into one global market with …
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Essays on Electricity and Sequential Auctions
… restructured wholesale electricity markets as oligopolies facing uncertain demand and ""capacity constraints"" in which each firm chooses as its strategy a ""supply function"" introduced by Klemperer and Meyer. To facilitate the computation of optimal strategies, we consider piecewise linear …
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Stochastic singular control: existence, characterization and approximation of solutions in cost minimization problems and games
… of optimal productivity expansion in dynamic oligopolies. We prove existence and uniqueness of the mean field equilibria, which are completely characterized through nonlinear equations. Furthermore, we relate the mean field equilibria of the discounted and the ergodic games by showing the …
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Three Essays on U.S. Electricity Policy
… fracturing the total market into smaller oligopolies and rendering market power to the participants. I study the real-time electricity market in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) from May through July 2021, narrowing my lens to only those periods where the grid is …