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      Choice of Product Variety for the Durable Goods Monopolist 

      Casado Izaga, Francisco Javier ORCID; Saracho de la Torre, Ana Isabel (1999-01)
      This paper analyzes the strategic choice of variety by a monopolist seller of a durable good as a means to mitigate his commitment problem. The monopolist chooses his product variety with a goal of ensuring that a strong ...
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      Partial ownership of local firms and zoning of neighboring towns 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Casado Izaga, Francisco Javier ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2019-03-27)
      This paper investigates zoning in two neighboring towns in which firms are owned by investors that reside in the two towns. We find that local regulators use zoning strategically depending on the weight of local profits ...
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      Should Owners of Firms Delegate Long-run Decisions? 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Casado Izaga, Francisco Javier ORCID (1999-11)
      This paper analyzes whether owners of firms have incentives to delegate their long-run decisions to managers or not. The result arising from our analysis shows that owners do have incentives to keep their long-run decisions ...
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      Zoning a cross-border city 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Casado Izaga, Francisco Javier ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV-EHU, 2015)
      This paper investigates zoning in a cross-border linear city that consists of two bordering towns. In each town a local regulator has a say in the location of the local firm. The incentive to gain consumers from the other ...