Access Statistics for David E. M. Sappington

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An Incentive Approach to Banking Regulation 0 0 0 0 1 1 30 676
An Optimal Rule for Patent Damages Under Sequential Innovation 0 0 1 251 1 1 22 550
Asymmetric Treatment of Identical Agents in Teams 0 0 0 41 1 1 11 182
Cpnservation and Incentive Regulation 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 198
Designing Incentive Regulation in the Electricity Sector 0 1 5 28 2 4 31 75
Does the Form of Physician Compensation Affect the Quality of Care in Medicaid HMOS? 0 0 0 35 0 0 8 219
Employing Gain-Sharing Regulation to Promote Forward Contracting in the Electricity Sector 0 0 1 17 1 1 18 34
Employing Simple Cost-Sharing Policies to Motivate the Efficient Implementation of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 48 1 1 7 81
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 81 1 1 16 307
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 269
Incentives for Sabotage in Vertically Related Industries 0 0 0 202 0 1 15 592
LINKING PRICE CAP AND RATE OF RETURN REGULATION 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 1,131
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 19
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 2 0 1 9 462
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 5 1 1 9 82
Load-Following Forward Contracts 0 0 1 39 2 4 27 179
MONITORING QUALITY PROVISIONS IN REGULATED MARKETS 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 619
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 0 0 0 19 0 0 8 50
Motivating the Optimal Procurement and Deployment of Electric Storage as a Transmission Asset 0 0 0 26 0 0 11 75
ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRM: SELF PROVISION VS. SUBCONTRACTING 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 545
OVERSIGHT OF LONG-TERM INVESTMENT BY SHORT-LIVED REGULATORS 0 0 0 0 2 3 18 269
On The Optimal Design of Demand Response Policies 0 0 0 56 2 3 16 196
On the Optimal Design of Distributed Generation Policies: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 0 58 1 1 10 164
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 0 80 0 0 14 208
On the Role of Maximum Demand Charges in the Presence of Distributed Generation Resources 1 1 1 51 3 4 13 138
Optimal Policies to Promote Efficient Distributed Generation of Electricity 0 0 0 99 1 2 10 186
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 76 0 0 6 179
Pareto Improving Inefficiency 0 0 0 24 0 0 11 81
Principles of regulatory policy design 0 0 4 316 0 1 16 1,809
Privatization, Information and Incentives 0 0 1 500 1 3 24 1,103
REVOLVING REGULATOR COMMISSIONS 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 523
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 0 0 9 1 1 14 58
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 21 1 1 15 96
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 0 0 1 1 3 4 20 24
SELECTING AND AGENT'S ABILITY 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 160
Self-Sabotage in the Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 45 0 0 6 104
Setting the X Factor in Price Cap Regulation Plans 1 1 3 1,393 2 5 24 3,696
The Impact of Wholesale Price Caps on Forward Contracting 0 1 2 17 3 5 12 35
Vertical Integration and Capacity Investment in the Electricity Sector 0 0 0 39 1 1 15 84
Total Working Papers 2 4 20 3,580 32 51 542 15,458


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 1 10 4 11 30 46
A note on optimal procurement contracts with limited direct cost inflation 0 0 0 22 0 0 4 100
Access pricing in network industries with mixed oligopoly 0 0 2 6 0 0 6 29
Access pricing with unregulated downstream competition 0 0 0 80 0 1 13 292
All entrepreneurial productivity increases are not created equal 0 0 0 1 0 0 11 49
All-or-nothing information control 0 0 1 99 0 0 8 235
An Incentive Approach to Banking Regulation 0 0 0 229 0 0 20 620
An Informational Effect When Regulated Firms Enter Unregulated Markets 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 155
An optimal rule for patent damages under sequential innovation 0 0 0 17 0 1 15 81
Asset Revaluation Regulations* 0 0 1 1 2 2 9 15
Asymmetric treatment of identical agents in teams 0 0 0 24 0 2 22 230
Awarding Monopoly Franchises 0 0 3 264 3 3 23 853
Choosing Workers' Qualifications: No Experience Necessary? 0 0 0 75 0 0 10 462
Choosing among Regulatory Options in the United States Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 49 0 1 11 206
Commitment to regulatory bureaucracy 0 1 1 39 0 1 11 125
Competition among Health Maintenance Organizations 0 0 0 25 0 0 11 128
Competitive Procurement of Auditing Services with Limited Information 0 0 0 14 0 2 8 56
Contracting with Private Knowledge of Production Capacity 0 0 0 8 0 1 8 39
Contracting with Wealth-Constrained Agents 0 0 0 15 0 0 6 168
Contracting with private knowledge of signal quality 0 0 0 10 0 2 8 95
Countervailing incentives in agency problems 0 0 6 782 0 0 22 1,345
DELEGATED EXPERTISE 1 1 2 49 2 3 17 153
Designing Compensation for Distributed Solar Generation: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 3 5 0 2 14 22
Designing Optional No-Fault Insurance Policies for Health Care Systems 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 145
Designing Optional No‐Fault Insurance Policies for Health Care Systems 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 11
Designing input prices to motivate process innovation 0 0 0 43 1 1 19 268
Designing optimal gain sharing plans to promote energy conservation 0 1 1 7 0 2 13 93
Does the quality of care in Medicaid MCOs vary with the form of physician compensation? 0 0 0 55 0 2 13 316
Economic Issues at the Federal Communications Commission 0 0 0 9 0 1 11 85
Efficient Awards and Standards of Proof in Judicial Proceedings 0 1 4 87 1 2 14 469
Efficient Manipulation in a Repeated Setting 0 0 1 23 0 0 8 115
Employing cost sharing to motivate the efficient implementation of distributed energy resources 0 0 0 6 0 0 4 27
Employing gain-sharing regulation to promote forward contracting in the electricity sector 0 0 3 4 0 1 25 35
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 34 0 2 15 166
Equity and Adverse Selection 0 0 0 69 0 1 11 289
Equity and adverse selection with correlated costs 0 0 0 19 0 0 10 167
Exclusive Contracts, Innovation, and Welfare 0 0 0 61 1 1 18 241
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 1 0 0 8 14
Explaining the Choice among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 293
Extreme screening policies 0 0 0 9 0 1 13 114
HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE AND RESPONSIBILITY ACCOUNTING 0 0 2 18 1 3 19 68
Hierarchical Regulatory Control 0 0 0 59 0 0 8 245
Hotelling competition with avoidable horizontal product differentiation 0 0 1 1 0 2 6 6
How Liable Should a Lender Be? The Case of Judgment-Proof Firms and Environmental Risk: Comment 0 0 0 67 1 2 19 373
How to determine the X in RPI-X regulation: a user's guide 0 0 2 87 2 5 18 302
INNOVATION IN VERTICALLY RELATED MARKETS* 0 0 3 148 0 0 14 458
Ignorance in Agency Problems 0 0 3 178 0 0 12 328
Implementing high‐powered contracts to motivate intertemporal effort supply 0 0 0 41 0 1 14 191
In memoriam to Michael A. Crew (1942–2016) 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 22
Incentive Regulation and Telecommunications Service Quality 0 0 0 153 0 1 7 498
Incentive contracting with asymmetric and imperfect precontractual knowledge 0 0 0 39 2 2 8 80
Incentive schemes with multiple agents and bankruptcy constraints 0 0 0 67 0 0 3 207
Incentives for Anticompetitive Behavior by Public Enterprises 0 0 1 32 0 1 13 195
Incentives for Conservation and Quality-Improvement by Public Utilities 0 0 0 60 1 3 11 196
Incentives for Monitoring Quality 0 0 0 62 0 1 10 268
Incentives for sabotage in vertically related industries 1 1 1 101 1 3 18 356
Incentives in Principal-Agent Relationships 0 1 2 1,852 1 11 39 4,286
Inflexible Rules in Incentive Problems 0 1 1 73 2 6 16 444
Information Management in Incentive Problems 0 0 4 38 2 3 24 671
Information, Incentives, and Organizational Mode 0 0 0 135 0 3 13 349
Insurance, Adverse Selection, and Cream-Skimming 0 0 0 105 0 0 8 345
LINE-ITEM REPORTING, FACTOR ACQUISITION, AND SUBCONTRACTING 0 0 0 0 1 1 13 24
Licensing and the sharing of knowledge in research joint ventures 0 0 1 157 0 0 22 398
Limited liability contracts between principal and agent 0 2 3 549 0 5 16 1,168
Load-Following Forward Contracts 0 0 1 2 2 4 17 25
Managing Supplier Switching 0 0 0 77 2 2 14 354
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 0 1 2 6 2 3 11 29
Motivating Wealth-Constrained Actors 0 0 0 79 0 0 9 503
Motivating cost reduction in regulated industries with rolling incentive schemes 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 8
Motivating energy suppliers to promote energy conservation 0 0 0 15 0 1 11 79
Motivating regulated suppliers to assess alternative technologies, protocols, and capital structures 0 0 0 5 0 0 9 50
Motivating the optimal procurement and deployment of electric storage as a transmission asset 0 1 2 7 3 5 17 40
Multi-agent control in perfectly correlated environments 0 0 0 43 0 1 6 128
On the Irrelevance of Input Prices for Make-or-Buy Decisions 0 0 0 123 1 1 10 425
On the Merits of Antitrust Liability in Regulated Industries 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 69
On the Merits of Vertical Divestiture 0 0 0 45 0 1 14 175
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 106
On the design of input prices: Can TELRIC prices ever be optimal? 0 0 0 40 0 0 5 106
On the design of performance measurement plans in the telecommunications industry 0 0 0 5 0 1 9 32
On the design of piece-rate contracts 0 0 0 34 1 2 12 176
On the design of price caps as sanctions 0 0 2 2 0 2 28 33
On the optimal design of demand response policies 0 0 0 13 1 1 12 99
On the performance of endogenous access pricing 0 0 0 3 1 2 14 64
On the profitability of self‐sabotage 0 0 0 2 0 0 13 28
On the role of maximum demand charges in the presence of distributed generation resources 0 0 0 4 2 2 10 60
On the timing of information release 0 0 1 55 0 0 7 109
Optimal Capital Structure in Agency Relationships 0 0 0 84 0 0 5 390
Optimal Contracting with Private Knowledge of Wealth and Ability 0 0 0 8 1 1 17 276
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 8
Optimal Regulation of Research and Development under Imperfect Information 0 0 0 76 0 0 10 474
Optimal Regulation of a Multiproduct Monopoly with Unknown Technological Capabilities 0 0 0 132 0 1 21 639
Optimal contracts with public ex post information 0 1 2 268 0 1 22 506
Optimal incentive contracts with multiple agents 0 0 1 589 0 1 7 988
Optimal industrial targeting with unknown learning-by-doing 0 0 0 23 0 1 6 224
Optimal policies to promote efficient distributed generation of electricity 0 0 0 18 0 0 13 86
Optimal revenue adjustment in the presence of exogenous demand variation 0 0 1 4 0 1 20 26
Outsourcing, vertical integration, and price vs. quantity competition 0 1 1 295 0 1 14 807
Oversight of Long-Term Investment by Short-Lived Regulators 0 0 0 0 1 1 8 156
Pareto Gains from Limiting Compensation Options 0 0 0 0 0 2 14 17
Pareto-improving inefficiency 0 0 0 15 0 0 8 89
Penalizing Success in Dynamic Incentive Contracts: No. Good Deed Goes Unpunished? 0 0 0 35 0 1 8 302
Potential pitfalls in empirical investigations of the effects of incentive regulation plans in the telecommunications industry 0 0 0 19 0 2 12 93
Precontractual information asymmetry between principal and agent: The Continuous Case 0 0 0 28 0 0 3 103
Price cap regulation: what have we learned from 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry? 0 0 2 147 0 6 18 419
Pricing to preclude sabotage in regulated industries 0 0 0 4 0 0 10 110
Privately-Negotiated Input Prices 0 0 0 39 0 1 11 250
Privatization, information and incentives 0 0 2 91 2 4 24 420
Procurement contracts: Theory vs. practice 0 0 0 53 2 3 10 208
Profiting from 'countervailing' power: An effect of government control 0 0 0 15 0 0 5 110
REVISITING THE CONDITIONS FOR FULLY REVEALING DISCLOSURE 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 6
Regulating Service Quality: A Survey 2 3 6 523 2 4 23 960
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 0 1 170 0 0 12 387
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 95 0 0 12 288
Regulating horizontal diversification 0 0 1 89 0 1 9 535
Regulating regulators in transitionally competitive markets 0 0 0 23 0 0 7 114
Regulating without Cost Information: Further Observations 0 0 1 10 0 1 8 92
Regulating without Cost Information: The Incremental Surplus Subsidy Scheme 0 0 1 131 0 1 11 459
Regulation in Vertically-Related Industries: Myths, Facts, and Policy 0 0 0 57 0 1 9 160
Regulation in a ‘Deregulated’ Industry: Railroads in the Post-Staggers Era 0 0 1 22 0 0 14 143
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 0 1 3 142 0 3 39 1,202
Regulatory Incentive Policies and Abuse 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 150
Regulatory Options and Price-Cap Regulation 0 0 0 114 0 3 17 384
Resolving Double Moral Hazard Problems with Buyout Agreements 0 0 1 200 0 1 11 769
Revealing transactions data to third parties: Implications of privacy regimes for welfare in online markets 0 0 0 10 0 0 8 46
Revenue sharing in incentive regulation plans 0 0 0 103 0 5 19 328
Reviewing the impact of incentive regulation on U.S. telephone service quality 0 0 0 101 0 1 13 423
SOURCING WITH UNVERIFIABLE PERFORMANCE INFORMATION 0 0 0 14 1 1 8 67
Sabotaging cost containment 0 0 0 20 0 1 12 86
Second Sourcing 0 0 1 83 0 2 13 373
Self-Sabotage 0 0 0 63 0 0 11 576
Sequential Regulatory Oversight 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 101
Setting the X Factor in Price-Cap Regulation Plans 1 1 2 497 4 6 24 1,427
Sharing Productive Knowledge in Internally Financed R&D Contests 0 0 0 58 0 1 10 225
Simple Cost-Sharing Contracts 1 1 2 104 2 3 12 729
Simple regulatory policies in the presence of demand and cost uncertainty 0 0 0 9 0 0 7 92
Strategic Firm Behavior under a Dynamic Regulatory Adjustment Process 0 0 0 110 1 2 8 415
Strategic Nonlinear Pricing under Price-Cap Regulation 0 0 0 133 0 0 14 436
Supplying Information to Facilitate Price Discrimination 0 0 2 490 1 3 17 1,169
Targeting efforts to raise rivals' costs: Moving from “Whether” to “Whom” 0 0 0 16 0 1 23 111
Technological Change and the Boundaries of the Firm 0 0 0 102 1 1 14 372
The Bright Side of Supplier Encroachment 2 5 18 79 6 11 58 495
The Effects of Incentive Regulation in the Telecommunications Industry: A Survey 0 0 0 2 4 5 14 1,032
The Effects of Incentive Regulation on Retail Telephone Service Quality in the United States 0 0 0 77 0 1 7 231
The Impact of State Incentive Regulation on the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 3 242 11 12 35 917
The Impact of Wholesale Price Caps on Forward Contracting 0 0 1 3 1 1 20 27
The Make-or-Buy Decision in the Presence of a Rival: Strategic Outsourcing to a Common Supplier 0 0 0 27 1 3 19 201
The State of Performance-Based Regulation in the U.S. Electric Utility Industry 0 0 0 80 1 1 10 229
The evolution of contracting: evidence from the US freight rail industry 0 1 3 3 0 1 14 16
The evolution of judicial standards: evidence from litigated merger trials 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 3
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 3 0 0 14 39
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 0 1 1 11 22
The impact of vertical integration on losses from collusion 0 0 0 3 0 0 16 33
The political economy of voluntary public service 0 0 2 4 0 2 10 23
To Brand or Not to Brand? A Theoretical and Empirical Question 0 0 0 132 0 0 15 422
Toward a Benchmark for Optimal Prudency Policy 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 118
Toward a Synthesis of Models of Regulatory Policy Design with Limited Information 0 0 1 227 0 0 7 421
Using Subjective Risk Adjusting to Prevent Patient Dumping in the Health Care Industry 0 0 1 53 0 0 11 252
Using decoupling and deep pockets to mitigate judgment-proof problems1 0 0 0 15 0 2 12 94
Using markets to allocate pollution permits and other scarce resource rights under limited information 0 0 0 48 0 2 14 216
Vertical Merger Policy: Special Considerations in Regulated Industries 0 0 1 6 0 0 9 25
Vertical integration and capacity investment in the electricity sector 1 1 1 14 1 1 19 48
Welfare effects of limiting bank loans 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 15
Welfare-enhancing fraudulent behavior 0 0 0 0 1 1 12 12
When do auctions ensure the welfare-maximizing allocation of scarce inputs? 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 46
Total Journal Articles 9 26 123 13,297 92 252 2,127 46,791
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry 0 0 1 34 1 1 14 140
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fifth edition 0 0 0 0 3 25 96 2,240
Total Books 0 0 1 34 4 26 110 2,380


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Recent Developments in the Theory of Regulation 0 1 11 1,266 2 10 63 2,898
Total Chapters 0 1 11 1,266 2 10 63 2,898


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