Three Essays in Industrial Organization: Pay-for-delay Settlements, Exclusive Contracts, and Price Discrimination

作者: Linda Gratz

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关键词: Profitability indexHuman settlementCompetition (economics)Downstream (petroleum industry)Price discriminationOrder (exchange)EconomicsIndustrial organizationImperfectWelfare

摘要: This dissertation encompasses three essays in the field of Industrial Organization. The first paper asks policy relevant question how pay-for-delay settlements pharmaceutical industry should be regulated order to maximize consumer welfare. second examines welfare effects exclusive contracts under consideration possibility contract breach and imperfect downstream competition within a theoretical model. third investigates profitability degree price discrimination is affected by consumers’ fairness preferences an experimental study. results experiment are explained

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