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      Choice of Flexible Production Technologies Under Strategic Delegation 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID (2004-09)
      This work analyzes a managerial delegation model in which firms can choose between a flexible production technology which allows them to produce two different products and a dedicated production technology which limits ...
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      Cost-Saving production technologies and strategic delegation 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID (2004-02)
      This work analyzes a managerial delegation model in which firms that produce a differentiated good can choose between two production technologies: a low marginal cost technology and a high marginal cost technology. For ...
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      Countervailing incentives in adverse selection models. A synthesis 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID; Beitia Ruiz de Mendarozqueta, María Aranzazu ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-12)
      In this paper we propose a simple method of characterizing countervailing incentives in adverse selection problems. The key element in our characterization consists of analyzing properties of the full information problem. ...
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      Do Mayoritarian Electoral Rules Favour Larger Industries in the Economy 

      Yeung, Timothy Yu-Cheong; Zuazu Bermejo, Izaskun (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2016)
      Electoral rules translate votes into seats on different basis. Politicians respond differently to alternative electoral rules, and consequently, economic performance is expected to vary across rules. This paper empirically ...
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      Endogenous Timing in a Mixed Duopoly: Wighted Welfare and Price Competition 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Sedano Hoyuelos, Máximo (2011)
      In this paper we analyse the endogenous order of moves in a mixed duopoly for differentiated goods. Firms choose whether to set prices sequentially or simultaneously. The private firm maximises profits while the public ...
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      Internal Organization of Firms and Cartel Formation 

      Kuipers, Jerome; Olaizola Ortega, María Norma ORCID (2004-12)
      We introduce and characterize a new solution concept for TU games. The new soluction is called SD-prenucleolus and is a lexicographic value although is not a weighted prenucleolus. The SD-prenucleolus satisfies several ...
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      Joan Robinson Was Almost Right: Output under Third-Degree Price Discrimination 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID (2009-12)
      In this paper, we show that in order for third-degree price discrimination to increase total output, the demands of the strong markets should be, as conjectured by Robinson (1933), more concave than the demands of the weak ...
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      Monopoly Price Discrimination and Demand Curvature 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID; Cowan, Simon; Vickers, John (2009-08)
      This paper presents a general analysis of the effects of monopolistic third-degree price discrimination on welfare and oputput when all markets are served. Sufficient conditions -involving straightforward comparisons of ...
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      Monopoly price discrimination with constant elasticity demand 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID; Cowan, Simon George (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2013-11)
      This paper presents new results on the welfare e¤ects of third-degree price discrimination under constant elasticity demand. We show that when both the share of the strong market under uniform pricing and the elasticity ...
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      Multimarket Competition and Welfare Effects of Price discrimination 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID (2011-11)
      The paper investigates the effects on welfare of price discrimination when a multimarket seller faces competition in one of its two markets. With respect to uniform pricing, price discrimination changes competition in such ...
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      On the economics of the "meeting competition defense" under the Robinson-Patman Act 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID (Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2015-02-19)
      In this paper we analyze the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination when competitive pressure varies across markets. In particular, we study the economic aspects of the Robinson-Patman Act associated with the ...
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      Partial cross-ownership and strategic environmental policy 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Campo Corredera, María Luz ORCID (2011)
      This paper analyzes the effect that passive investment in rival firms has on the setting of cooperative and non-cooperative environmental taxes. We consider two firms located in different countries, one of which owns a ...
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      Partial Privatization of State Holding Corporations 

      Dong, Quean; Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (Departamento Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, 2016-06)
      We consider a state holding corporation with two plants that may produce complement or substitute goods and that compete with one or two private firms. We find that the government partially privatizes the two plants of the ...
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      Relocation and Investment in R&D by Firms 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón San Felipe, María Begoña ORCID (2011)
      The literature on foreign direct investment has analyzed firms’ location decisions when they invest in R&D to reduce production costs. Such firms may set up new plants in other developed countries while maintaining their ...
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      Timing of Wage Setting when Firms Invest in R&D 

      Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Campo Corredera, María Luz ORCID (2003-12)
      In this paper, we analyze the effect that the timing of wage setting (i. e. whether wages set sequentially or simultaneously) has on the investment in R&D of firms, when that investment increases the productivity of labor, ...
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      Welfare Effects of Third-Degree Price Discrimination: Ippolito Meets Schmalensee and Varian 

      Aguirre Pérez, Iñaki ORCID (2011-10)
      Based on a pioneering work by Ippolito (1980) we construct a simple model wich allows the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination to be well understood and explained. The decomposition of the change in welfare ...
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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 ...