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Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition: An Analysis of Restructured US Electricity Markets

By James B. Bushnell, Erin T. Mansur, and Celeste Saravia

òòò½Íø Review, March 2008

This paper examines vertical arrangements in electricity markets. Vertically integrated wholesalers, or those with long-term contracts, have less incentive to raise wholesale prices when retail prices are determined beforehand. For three restructured m...

An Introduction to Vote-Counting Schemes

[Symposium: Economics of Voting]

By Jonathan Levin and Barry Nalebuff

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1995

Many researchers, following Kenneth Arrow's lead, have concerned themselves with stating various desirable or undesirable criteria and attempting to classify vote-counting systems. This paper moves away from theoretical discussions: the authors illustrate...

Why Tie a Product Consumers Do Not Use?

By Dennis W. Carlton, Joshua S. Gans, and Michael Waldman

òòò½Íø Journal: Microeconomics, August 2010

We provide an explanation for tying not based on any of the standard arguments: efficiency, price discrimination, or exclusion. In our analysis a monopolist ties a complementary good to its monopolized good, but consumers do not use the tied good. The tie...

What the Stock Market Decline Means for the Financial Security and Retirement Choices of the Near-Retirement Population

[Symposium: Retirement and Work Choices]

By Alan L. Gustman, Thomas L. Steinmeier, and Nahid Tabatabai

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2010

This paper investigates the effect of the current recession on the retirement age population. Data from the Health and Retirement Study suggest that those approaching retirement age (early boomers ages 53 to 58 in 2006) have only 15.2 percent of their wea...