Arbeitspapier

An Alternative to Natural Monopoly

We consider a shared ownership arrangement among consumers/owners as a means to organize production with an underlying decreasing average cost function typical of natural monopolies. The resulting output allocation yields a lower deadweight loss than the monopoly allocation, and is, in some cases, efficient.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2019-04

Classification
Wirtschaft
Monopoly; Monopolization Strategies
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Subject
natural monopoly
deaweight loss from monopoly
decreasing average costs

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Rutgers University, Department of Economics
(where)
New Brunswick, NJ
(when)
2019

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol
  • Rutgers University, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2019

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