Access Statistics for David E. M. Sappington

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Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
An Incentive Approach to Banking Regulation 0 0 0 0 6 21 24 670
An Optimal Rule for Patent Damages Under Sequential Innovation 0 0 1 250 6 12 19 544
Asymmetric Treatment of Identical Agents in Teams 0 0 0 41 1 4 9 179
Cpnservation and Incentive Regulation 0 0 0 0 1 10 11 195
Designing Incentive Regulation in the Electricity Sector 0 0 6 27 5 9 29 64
Does the Form of Physician Compensation Affect the Quality of Care in Medicaid HMOS? 0 0 0 35 0 4 8 217
Employing Gain-Sharing Regulation to Promote Forward Contracting in the Electricity Sector 0 1 1 17 3 10 12 28
Employing Simple Cost-Sharing Policies to Motivate the Efficient Implementation of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 48 0 2 6 78
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 81 4 9 11 301
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 262
Incentives for Sabotage in Vertically Related Industries 0 0 0 202 1 6 11 586
LINKING PRICE CAP AND RATE OF RETURN REGULATION 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 1,129
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 5 2 5 10 79
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 2 2 6 6 459
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 1 3 6 6 18
Load-Following Forward Contracts 1 1 1 39 8 13 24 173
MONITORING QUALITY PROVISIONS IN REGULATED MARKETS 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 617
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 0 0 0 19 0 3 5 47
Motivating the Optimal Procurement and Deployment of Electric Storage as a Transmission Asset 0 0 0 26 0 8 10 74
ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRM: SELF PROVISION VS. SUBCONTRACTING 0 0 0 0 2 5 8 541
OVERSIGHT OF LONG-TERM INVESTMENT BY SHORT-LIVED REGULATORS 0 0 0 0 4 11 15 264
On The Optimal Design of Demand Response Policies 0 0 0 56 2 10 10 190
On the Optimal Design of Distributed Generation Policies: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 0 58 1 5 7 161
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 0 80 3 8 13 203
On the Role of Maximum Demand Charges in the Presence of Distributed Generation Resources 0 0 0 50 0 5 7 132
Optimal Policies to Promote Efficient Distributed Generation of Electricity 0 0 0 99 1 4 5 181
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 1 76 0 1 3 175
Pareto Improving Inefficiency 0 0 0 24 3 9 11 80
Principles of regulatory policy design 1 2 5 315 3 7 15 1,803
Privatization, Information and Incentives 0 0 1 499 1 14 22 1,096
REVOLVING REGULATOR COMMISSIONS 0 0 0 0 2 6 6 520
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 0 0 9 2 6 11 54
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 21 3 6 11 88
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 0 1 1 1 2 8 13 13
SELECTING AND AGENT'S ABILITY 0 0 0 0 2 8 8 158
Self-Sabotage in the Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 45 1 2 4 102
Setting the X Factor in Price Cap Regulation Plans 0 2 3 1,392 4 12 17 3,687
The Impact of Wholesale Price Caps on Forward Contracting 0 0 0 15 2 3 9 27
Vertical Integration and Capacity Investment in the Electricity Sector 0 0 0 39 3 7 14 77
Total Working Papers 2 7 20 3,572 83 278 428 15,272


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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40 Years of Incentive Regulation: What Have We Learned, and What Questions Remain? 0 0 5 9 4 9 16 26
A note on optimal procurement contracts with limited direct cost inflation 0 0 0 22 1 3 5 100
Access pricing in network industries with mixed oligopoly 0 2 2 6 0 2 4 26
Access pricing with unregulated downstream competition 0 0 0 80 1 6 7 286
All entrepreneurial productivity increases are not created equal 0 0 0 1 2 5 7 45
All-or-nothing information control 0 0 1 98 2 3 9 233
An Incentive Approach to Banking Regulation 0 0 1 229 2 17 21 618
An Informational Effect When Regulated Firms Enter Unregulated Markets 0 0 0 0 3 7 10 153
An optimal rule for patent damages under sequential innovation 0 0 0 17 3 8 10 75
Asset Revaluation Regulations* 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 9
Asymmetric treatment of identical agents in teams 0 0 0 24 1 10 18 224
Awarding Monopoly Franchises 0 0 2 263 3 15 22 849
Choosing Workers' Qualifications: No Experience Necessary? 0 0 0 75 2 8 10 460
Choosing among Regulatory Options in the United States Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 49 3 8 9 203
Commitment to regulatory bureaucracy 0 0 0 38 2 8 10 123
Competition among Health Maintenance Organizations 0 0 0 25 0 6 10 127
Competitive Procurement of Auditing Services with Limited Information 0 0 1 14 0 2 6 52
Contracting with Private Knowledge of Production Capacity 0 0 0 8 0 6 7 37
Contracting with Wealth-Constrained Agents 0 0 0 15 1 5 6 167
Contracting with private knowledge of signal quality 0 0 1 10 0 4 5 91
Countervailing incentives in agency problems 0 2 12 782 1 9 26 1,340
DELEGATED EXPERTISE 0 1 2 48 4 9 15 149
Designing Compensation for Distributed Solar Generation: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 2 3 1 3 8 14
Designing Compensation for Distributed Solar Generation: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 0 46 1 7 11 192
Designing Optional No-Fault Insurance Policies for Health Care Systems 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 143
Designing Optional No‐Fault Insurance Policies for Health Care Systems 0 0 0 0 2 7 8 10
Designing input prices to motivate process innovation 0 0 1 43 2 8 18 263
Designing optimal gain sharing plans to promote energy conservation 0 0 0 6 4 7 8 88
Does the quality of care in Medicaid MCOs vary with the form of physician compensation? 0 0 0 55 0 9 12 313
Economic Issues at the Federal Communications Commission 0 0 0 9 0 6 8 81
Efficient Awards and Standards of Proof in Judicial Proceedings 0 1 2 85 0 4 11 463
Efficient Manipulation in a Repeated Setting 0 0 1 23 0 1 11 115
Employing cost sharing to motivate the efficient implementation of distributed energy resources 0 0 0 6 1 2 3 25
Employing gain-sharing regulation to promote forward contracting in the electricity sector 1 2 2 3 3 15 18 27
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 34 0 8 11 160
Equity and Adverse Selection 0 0 0 69 2 9 10 287
Equity and adverse selection with correlated costs 0 0 0 19 3 9 9 166
Exclusive Contracts, Innovation, and Welfare 0 0 0 61 4 7 17 233
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 9
Explaining the Choice among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 291
Extreme screening policies 0 0 0 9 0 6 9 107
HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE AND RESPONSIBILITY ACCOUNTING 0 0 2 18 1 7 14 62
Hierarchical Regulatory Control 0 0 0 59 0 5 7 243
How Liable Should a Lender Be? The Case of Judgment-Proof Firms and Environmental Risk: Comment 0 0 0 67 3 11 16 368
How to determine the X in RPI-X regulation: a user's guide 0 0 2 86 0 6 11 293
INNOVATION IN VERTICALLY RELATED MARKETS* 0 1 4 148 3 10 19 456
Ignorance in Agency Problems 0 1 2 176 1 8 12 325
Implementing high‐powered contracts to motivate intertemporal effort supply 0 0 0 41 6 10 11 187
In memoriam to Michael A. Crew (1942–2016) 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 20
Incentive Regulation and Telecommunications Service Quality 0 0 0 153 0 2 5 494
Incentive contracting with asymmetric and imperfect precontractual knowledge 0 0 0 39 0 3 4 75
Incentive schemes with multiple agents and bankruptcy constraints 0 0 0 67 0 1 6 205
Incentives for Anticompetitive Behavior by Public Enterprises 0 0 0 31 4 8 10 191
Incentives for Conservation and Quality-Improvement by Public Utilities 0 0 0 60 1 5 6 190
Incentives for Monitoring Quality 0 0 0 62 1 4 8 266
Incentives for sabotage in vertically related industries 0 0 1 100 0 4 14 349
Incentives in Principal-Agent Relationships 1 1 4 1,851 1 14 29 4,265
Inflexible Rules in Incentive Problems 0 0 0 72 3 8 9 436
Information Management in Incentive Problems 0 3 5 37 4 12 22 662
Information, Incentives, and Organizational Mode 0 0 0 135 2 4 11 345
Insurance, Adverse Selection, and Cream-Skimming 0 0 0 105 2 4 6 342
LINE-ITEM REPORTING, FACTOR ACQUISITION, AND SUBCONTRACTING 0 0 0 0 1 9 11 22
Licensing and the sharing of knowledge in research joint ventures 0 1 1 157 5 15 27 396
Limited liability contracts between principal and agent 0 0 2 547 2 6 13 1,161
Load-Following Forward Contracts 0 0 2 2 0 4 10 17
Managing Supplier Switching 0 0 1 77 0 4 5 344
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 0 0 1 5 0 2 13 26
Motivating Wealth-Constrained Actors 0 0 0 79 3 3 6 499
Motivating cost reduction in regulated industries with rolling incentive schemes 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 6
Motivating energy suppliers to promote energy conservation 0 0 0 15 4 6 8 74
Motivating regulated suppliers to assess alternative technologies, protocols, and capital structures 0 0 0 5 1 6 8 47
Motivating the optimal procurement and deployment of electric storage as a transmission asset 0 1 1 6 0 5 8 30
Multi-agent control in perfectly correlated environments 0 0 0 43 1 5 6 127
On the Irrelevance of Input Prices for Make-or-Buy Decisions 0 0 0 123 0 3 7 420
On the Merits of Antitrust Liability in Regulated Industries 0 0 1 10 1 6 10 68
On the Merits of Vertical Divestiture 0 0 0 45 2 8 11 171
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 0 0 1 7 11 100
On the design of input prices: Can TELRIC prices ever be optimal? 0 0 0 40 1 3 3 104
On the design of performance measurement plans in the telecommunications industry 0 0 0 5 1 6 7 30
On the design of piece-rate contracts 0 0 0 34 0 6 9 171
On the design of price caps as sanctions 0 1 1 1 3 11 20 20
On the optimal design of demand response policies 0 0 0 13 2 6 12 98
On the performance of endogenous access pricing 0 0 0 3 2 7 9 58
On the profitability of self‐sabotage 0 0 0 2 3 9 11 26
On the role of maximum demand charges in the presence of distributed generation resources 0 0 0 4 0 4 4 54
On the timing of information release 0 0 1 55 1 4 8 109
Optimal Capital Structure in Agency Relationships 0 0 0 84 0 3 8 389
Optimal Contracting with Private Knowledge of Wealth and Ability 0 0 0 8 2 8 13 269
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 16 0 4 4 70
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
Optimal Regulation of Research and Development under Imperfect Information 0 0 1 76 1 5 9 472
Optimal Regulation of a Multiproduct Monopoly with Unknown Technological Capabilities 0 0 0 132 2 9 15 633
Optimal contracts with public ex post information 0 1 1 267 4 19 19 503
Optimal incentive contracts with multiple agents 0 1 5 589 0 1 9 984
Optimal industrial targeting with unknown learning-by-doing 0 0 0 23 1 2 5 221
Optimal policies to promote efficient distributed generation of electricity 0 0 1 18 1 5 10 82
Optimal revenue adjustment in the presence of exogenous demand variation 0 1 2 4 4 7 15 19
Outsourcing, vertical integration, and price vs. quantity competition 0 0 3 294 1 7 23 804
Oversight of Long-Term Investment by Short-Lived Regulators 0 0 0 0 1 7 7 155
Pareto Gains from Limiting Compensation Options 0 0 0 0 2 10 12 14
Pareto-improving inefficiency 0 0 0 15 0 3 5 86
Penalizing Success in Dynamic Incentive Contracts: No. Good Deed Goes Unpunished? 0 0 0 35 1 4 6 300
Potential pitfalls in empirical investigations of the effects of incentive regulation plans in the telecommunications industry 0 0 1 19 5 8 10 90
Precontractual information asymmetry between principal and agent: The Continuous Case 0 0 0 28 1 3 3 103
Price cap regulation: what have we learned from 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry? 0 1 3 147 0 4 12 409
Pricing to preclude sabotage in regulated industries 0 0 0 4 1 6 7 106
Privately-Negotiated Input Prices 0 0 0 39 2 8 9 248
Privatization, information and incentives 0 1 4 91 2 9 23 412
Procurement contracts: Theory vs. practice 0 0 0 53 2 5 8 203
Profiting from 'countervailing' power: An effect of government control 0 0 0 15 0 2 3 108
Regulating Service Quality: A Survey 1 1 7 520 4 11 23 954
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 0 1 170 0 7 11 384
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 95 0 5 10 283
Regulating horizontal diversification 1 1 1 89 5 7 14 533
Regulating regulators in transitionally competitive markets 0 0 0 23 1 5 6 112
Regulating without Cost Information: Further Observations 0 0 0 9 0 4 4 88
Regulating without Cost Information: The Incremental Surplus Subsidy Scheme 0 0 1 130 2 4 9 454
Regulation in Vertically-Related Industries: Myths, Facts, and Policy 0 0 0 57 0 5 6 156
Regulation in a ‘Deregulated’ Industry: Railroads in the Post-Staggers Era 0 0 2 21 1 7 13 138
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 0 1 4 141 4 18 35 1,194
Regulatory Incentive Policies and Abuse 0 0 0 0 1 6 8 147
Regulatory Options and Price-Cap Regulation 0 0 0 114 1 6 8 374
Resolving Double Moral Hazard Problems with Buyout Agreements 0 0 1 199 2 6 12 767
Revealing transactions data to third parties: Implications of privacy regimes for welfare in online markets 0 0 0 10 0 2 3 40
Revenue sharing in incentive regulation plans 0 0 0 103 1 9 11 320
Reviewing the impact of incentive regulation on U.S. telephone service quality 0 0 0 101 0 7 7 417
SOURCING WITH UNVERIFIABLE PERFORMANCE INFORMATION 0 0 0 14 0 5 7 65
Sabotaging cost containment 0 0 0 20 1 5 8 80
Second Sourcing 0 1 4 83 2 7 13 368
Self-Sabotage 0 0 0 63 2 8 10 575
Sequential Regulatory Oversight 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 98
Setting the X Factor in Price-Cap Regulation Plans 0 0 2 495 1 6 15 1,412
Sharing Productive Knowledge in Internally Financed R&D Contests 0 0 0 58 0 8 8 223
Simple Cost-Sharing Contracts 0 0 2 103 1 5 10 726
Simple regulatory policies in the presence of demand and cost uncertainty 0 0 0 9 0 4 6 91
Strategic Firm Behavior under a Dynamic Regulatory Adjustment Process 0 0 0 110 0 6 7 413
Strategic Nonlinear Pricing under Price-Cap Regulation 0 0 0 133 4 10 12 433
Supplying Information to Facilitate Price Discrimination 1 2 6 490 4 12 20 1,166
Targeting efforts to raise rivals' costs: Moving from “Whether” to “Whom” 0 0 0 16 6 15 21 105
Technological Change and the Boundaries of the Firm 0 0 0 102 1 10 13 370
The Bright Side of Supplier Encroachment 0 1 6 66 2 11 37 466
The Effects of Incentive Regulation in the Telecommunications Industry: A Survey 0 0 0 2 0 5 10 1,025
The Effects of Incentive Regulation on Retail Telephone Service Quality in the United States 0 0 0 77 0 4 4 228
The Impact of State Incentive Regulation on the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 2 3 241 1 15 28 903
The Impact of Wholesale Price Caps on Forward Contracting 0 0 3 3 2 8 19 19
The Make-or-Buy Decision in the Presence of a Rival: Strategic Outsourcing to a Common Supplier 0 0 1 27 0 7 17 195
The State of Performance-Based Regulation in the U.S. Electric Utility Industry 0 0 0 80 0 5 7 226
The evolution of contracting: evidence from the US freight rail industry 0 0 2 2 2 8 12 12
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 0 2 6 9 17
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 3 0 10 13 37
The impact of vertical integration on losses from collusion 0 0 1 3 2 8 15 29
The political economy of voluntary public service 0 2 2 4 0 4 6 18
To Brand or Not to Brand? A Theoretical and Empirical Question 0 0 0 132 1 7 10 416
Toward a Benchmark for Optimal Prudency Policy 0 0 0 0 2 5 8 115
Toward a Synthesis of Models of Regulatory Policy Design with Limited Information 0 0 1 227 0 2 8 418
Using Subjective Risk Adjusting to Prevent Patient Dumping in the Health Care Industry 0 1 1 53 3 8 12 251
Using decoupling and deep pockets to mitigate judgment-proof problems1 0 0 0 15 1 3 10 91
Using markets to allocate pollution permits and other scarce resource rights under limited information 0 0 0 48 1 8 14 213
Vertical Merger Policy: Special Considerations in Regulated Industries 0 1 1 6 1 4 5 20
Vertical integration and capacity investment in the electricity sector 0 0 1 13 2 6 13 40
Welfare effects of limiting bank loans 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 12
Welfare-enhancing fraudulent behavior 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 6
When do auctions ensure the welfare-maximizing allocation of scarce inputs? 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 45
Total Journal Articles 5 35 141 13,305 233 1,042 1,730 46,303
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry 0 0 2 34 0 5 9 134
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fifth edition 0 0 0 0 8 24 118 2,189
Total Books 0 0 2 34 8 29 127 2,323


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
Last month 3 months 12 months Total Last month 3 months 12 months Total
Recent Developments in the Theory of Regulation 1 5 16 1,264 5 21 61 2,878
Total Chapters 1 5 16 1,264 5 21 61 2,878


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