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On the economics of the "meeting competition defense" under the Robinson-Patman Act
(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 ...
Countervailing incentives in adverse selection models. A synthesis
(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. ...
Do Mayoritarian Electoral Rules Favour Larger Industries in the Economy
(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 ...
Choice of Product Variety for the Durable Goods Monopolist
(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 ...
Product Differentiation with Consumer Arbitrage
(2003-03)
We analyze the consequences of consumers behavior concerning personal arbitrage in a spatial discrimination context where firms know the consumers distribution but cannot distinguish them by location. The firms' equilibrium ...
Relocation and Investment in R&D by Firms
(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 ...
International and Intergenerational Dimensions of Climate Change: North-South Cooperation in an Overlapping Generations Framework
(2003-12)
Global environmental problems such as climate change have both an international and an intertemporal dimension. Recently, some papers have used an overlapping generations framework to analyze the climate change problem ...
Ghost seats in the Basque Parliament
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2015-04-24)
In elections voters have generally four options: to abstain, to cast a blank vote, to cast a null vote, or to vote for a candidate or party. This last option is a positive expression of support, while the other three options ...
Proficiency, Attitude and Conventions in Minority Languages
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2015-10)
In this paper we study a simple mathematical model of a bilingual community in which all agents are f luent in the majority language but only a fraction of the population has some degree of pro ficiency in the minority ...
To disqualify or not to qualify: This is the other question
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2016-10-10)
In this paper we study ternary trichotomous rules, that allows for three levels of input, positive, neutral and negative and three levels of output, positive, undetermined and negative. We illustrate the
interest of such ...