Access Statistics for David E. M. Sappington

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An Incentive Approach to Banking Regulation 0 0 0 0 10 18 19 664
An Optimal Rule for Patent Damages Under Sequential Innovation 0 0 1 250 4 6 13 538
Asymmetric Treatment of Identical Agents in Teams 0 0 0 41 3 4 8 178
Cpnservation and Incentive Regulation 0 0 0 0 8 9 10 194
Designing Incentive Regulation in the Electricity Sector 0 1 6 27 4 10 24 59
Does the Form of Physician Compensation Affect the Quality of Care in Medicaid HMOS? 0 0 0 35 3 5 8 217
Employing Gain-Sharing Regulation to Promote Forward Contracting in the Electricity Sector 1 1 1 17 6 7 10 25
Employing Simple Cost-Sharing Policies to Motivate the Efficient Implementation of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 48 2 2 6 78
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 81 5 6 7 297
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 262
Incentives for Sabotage in Vertically Related Industries 0 0 0 202 2 7 10 585
LINKING PRICE CAP AND RATE OF RETURN REGULATION 0 0 0 0 6 7 7 1,129
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 5 2 4 8 77
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 2 3 4 4 457
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 1 3 3 3 15
Load-Following Forward Contracts 0 0 0 38 5 12 18 165
MONITORING QUALITY PROVISIONS IN REGULATED MARKETS 0 0 0 0 4 5 6 617
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 0 0 0 19 3 5 10 47
Motivating the Optimal Procurement and Deployment of Electric Storage as a Transmission Asset 0 0 0 26 4 10 11 74
ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRM: SELF PROVISION VS. SUBCONTRACTING 0 0 0 0 2 5 6 539
OVERSIGHT OF LONG-TERM INVESTMENT BY SHORT-LIVED REGULATORS 0 0 0 0 5 9 11 260
On The Optimal Design of Demand Response Policies 0 0 0 56 7 8 8 188
On the Optimal Design of Distributed Generation Policies: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 0 58 2 5 6 160
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 1 80 3 6 11 200
On the Role of Maximum Demand Charges in the Presence of Distributed Generation Resources 0 0 0 50 4 6 9 132
Optimal Policies to Promote Efficient Distributed Generation of Electricity 0 0 0 99 3 4 5 180
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 1 76 1 1 3 175
Pareto Improving Inefficiency 0 0 0 24 5 7 8 77
Principles of regulatory policy design 0 1 4 314 1 5 13 1,800
Privatization, Information and Incentives 0 0 1 499 7 15 22 1,095
REVOLVING REGULATOR COMMISSIONS 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 518
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 0 0 9 3 4 9 52
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 21 1 3 8 85
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 0 1 1 1 3 7 11 11
SELECTING AND AGENT'S ABILITY 0 0 0 0 6 6 6 156
Self-Sabotage in the Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 45 0 1 3 101
Setting the X Factor in Price Cap Regulation Plans 2 2 3 1,392 5 10 14 3,683
The Impact of Wholesale Price Caps on Forward Contracting 0 0 0 15 1 1 8 25
Vertical Integration and Capacity Investment in the Electricity Sector 0 0 1 39 3 4 12 74
Total Working Papers 3 6 20 3,570 145 238 364 15,189


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 5 5 15 22
A note on optimal procurement contracts with limited direct cost inflation 0 0 0 22 1 2 4 99
Access pricing in network industries with mixed oligopoly 1 2 2 6 1 3 4 26
Access pricing with unregulated downstream competition 0 0 0 80 4 5 7 285
All entrepreneurial productivity increases are not created equal 0 0 0 1 2 4 5 43
All-or-nothing information control 0 0 1 98 1 3 8 231
An Incentive Approach to Banking Regulation 0 0 1 229 12 15 19 616
An Informational Effect When Regulated Firms Enter Unregulated Markets 0 0 0 0 4 4 8 150
An optimal rule for patent damages under sequential innovation 0 0 0 17 5 5 7 72
Asset Revaluation Regulations* 0 0 1 1 2 2 3 9
Asymmetric treatment of identical agents in teams 0 0 0 24 5 10 18 223
Awarding Monopoly Franchises 0 0 2 263 8 14 21 846
Choosing Workers' Qualifications: No Experience Necessary? 0 0 0 75 2 6 9 458
Choosing among Regulatory Options in the United States Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 49 2 5 6 200
Commitment to regulatory bureaucracy 0 0 0 38 5 7 8 121
Competition among Health Maintenance Organizations 0 0 0 25 6 8 10 127
Competitive Procurement of Auditing Services with Limited Information 0 0 2 14 2 4 7 52
Contracting with Private Knowledge of Production Capacity 0 0 0 8 5 6 7 37
Contracting with Wealth-Constrained Agents 0 0 0 15 3 4 5 166
Contracting with private knowledge of signal quality 0 0 1 10 4 4 5 91
Countervailing incentives in agency problems 2 3 12 782 7 11 25 1,339
DELEGATED EXPERTISE 0 1 2 48 3 7 12 145
Designing Compensation for Distributed Solar Generation: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 0 46 4 9 10 191
Designing Compensation for Distributed Solar Generation: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 2 3 2 3 7 13
Designing Optional No-Fault Insurance Policies for Health Care Systems 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 142
Designing Optional No‐Fault Insurance Policies for Health Care Systems 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 8
Designing input prices to motivate process innovation 0 0 1 43 5 8 16 261
Designing optimal gain sharing plans to promote energy conservation 0 0 0 6 1 4 5 84
Does the quality of care in Medicaid MCOs vary with the form of physician compensation? 0 0 0 55 8 10 12 313
Economic Issues at the Federal Communications Commission 0 0 0 9 5 6 8 81
Efficient Awards and Standards of Proof in Judicial Proceedings 0 1 2 85 3 7 11 463
Efficient Manipulation in a Repeated Setting 0 0 1 23 1 2 11 115
Employing cost sharing to motivate the efficient implementation of distributed energy resources 0 0 0 6 0 1 2 24
Employing gain-sharing regulation to promote forward contracting in the electricity sector 0 1 1 2 7 13 15 24
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 34 8 8 11 160
Equity and Adverse Selection 0 0 0 69 7 7 8 285
Equity and adverse selection with correlated costs 0 0 0 19 6 6 6 163
Exclusive Contracts, Innovation, and Welfare 0 0 0 61 3 6 13 229
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 1 1 2 5 9
Explaining the Choice among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 289
Extreme screening policies 0 0 1 9 5 6 10 107
HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE AND RESPONSIBILITY ACCOUNTING 0 0 2 18 4 7 13 61
Hierarchical Regulatory Control 0 0 0 59 2 6 7 243
How Liable Should a Lender Be? The Case of Judgment-Proof Firms and Environmental Risk: Comment 0 0 0 67 6 11 13 365
How to determine the X in RPI-X regulation: a user's guide 0 0 2 86 3 6 13 293
INNOVATION IN VERTICALLY RELATED MARKETS* 1 2 5 148 4 8 17 453
Ignorance in Agency Problems 0 1 3 176 6 8 13 324
Implementing high‐powered contracts to motivate intertemporal effort supply 0 0 0 41 4 4 6 181
In memoriam to Michael A. Crew (1942–2016) 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 18
Incentive Regulation and Telecommunications Service Quality 0 0 0 153 2 3 6 494
Incentive contracting with asymmetric and imperfect precontractual knowledge 0 0 0 39 2 3 4 75
Incentive schemes with multiple agents and bankruptcy constraints 0 0 0 67 1 1 6 205
Incentives for Anticompetitive Behavior by Public Enterprises 0 0 0 31 3 4 7 187
Incentives for Conservation and Quality-Improvement by Public Utilities 0 0 0 60 1 4 5 189
Incentives for Monitoring Quality 0 0 0 62 2 5 9 265
Incentives for sabotage in vertically related industries 0 0 1 100 4 5 14 349
Incentives in Principal-Agent Relationships 0 0 3 1,850 8 14 30 4,264
Inflexible Rules in Incentive Problems 0 0 0 72 2 5 6 433
Information Management in Incentive Problems 1 3 5 37 5 10 18 658
Information, Incentives, and Organizational Mode 0 0 1 135 1 5 10 343
Insurance, Adverse Selection, and Cream-Skimming 0 0 0 105 2 2 4 340
LINE-ITEM REPORTING, FACTOR ACQUISITION, AND SUBCONTRACTING 0 0 0 0 7 8 10 21
Licensing and the sharing of knowledge in research joint ventures 1 1 1 157 9 13 22 391
Limited liability contracts between principal and agent 0 0 4 547 3 4 13 1,159
Load-Following Forward Contracts 0 0 2 2 4 6 11 17
Managing Supplier Switching 0 0 1 77 3 4 6 344
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 0 1 1 5 2 8 14 26
Motivating Wealth-Constrained Actors 0 0 0 79 0 0 3 496
Motivating cost reduction in regulated industries with rolling incentive schemes 0 0 0 0 4 6 6 6
Motivating energy suppliers to promote energy conservation 0 0 0 15 1 2 4 70
Motivating regulated suppliers to assess alternative technologies, protocols, and capital structures 0 0 0 5 3 5 7 46
Motivating the optimal procurement and deployment of electric storage as a transmission asset 0 1 1 6 2 6 10 30
Multi-agent control in perfectly correlated environments 0 0 0 43 3 4 5 126
On the Irrelevance of Input Prices for Make-or-Buy Decisions 0 0 0 123 2 4 8 420
On the Merits of Antitrust Liability in Regulated Industries 0 0 1 10 3 6 9 67
On the Merits of Vertical Divestiture 0 0 0 45 3 6 9 169
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 0 0 6 8 11 99
On the design of input prices: Can TELRIC prices ever be optimal? 0 0 0 40 2 2 2 103
On the design of performance measurement plans in the telecommunications industry 0 0 0 5 2 6 6 29
On the design of piece-rate contracts 0 0 0 34 5 7 9 171
On the design of price caps as sanctions 0 1 1 1 1 9 17 17
On the optimal design of demand response policies 0 0 0 13 2 4 10 96
On the performance of endogenous access pricing 0 0 0 3 3 6 7 56
On the profitability of self‐sabotage 0 0 0 2 4 7 8 23
On the role of maximum demand charges in the presence of distributed generation resources 0 0 1 4 4 4 5 54
On the timing of information release 0 1 1 55 2 4 7 108
Optimal Capital Structure in Agency Relationships 0 0 0 84 2 4 8 389
Optimal Contracting with Private Knowledge of Wealth and Ability 0 0 0 8 3 8 11 267
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 3
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 16 3 4 6 70
Optimal Regulation of Research and Development under Imperfect Information 0 0 1 76 4 7 8 471
Optimal Regulation of a Multiproduct Monopoly with Unknown Technological Capabilities 0 0 0 132 3 8 13 631
Optimal contracts with public ex post information 1 1 1 267 15 15 16 499
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 0 2 4 220
Optimal policies to promote efficient distributed generation of electricity 0 0 2 18 4 6 10 81
Optimal revenue adjustment in the presence of exogenous demand variation 0 1 2 4 2 6 11 15
Outsourcing, vertical integration, and price vs. quantity competition 0 0 3 294 5 9 23 803
Oversight of Long-Term Investment by Short-Lived Regulators 0 0 0 0 4 6 6 154
Pareto Gains from Limiting Compensation Options 0 0 0 0 7 9 10 12
Pareto-improving inefficiency 0 0 0 15 1 4 5 86
Penalizing Success in Dynamic Incentive Contracts: No. Good Deed Goes Unpunished? 0 0 0 35 3 4 8 299
Potential pitfalls in empirical investigations of the effects of incentive regulation plans in the telecommunications industry 0 0 1 19 3 4 5 85
Precontractual information asymmetry between principal and agent: The Continuous Case 0 0 0 28 1 2 2 102
Price cap regulation: what have we learned from 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry? 0 2 3 147 2 8 12 409
Pricing to preclude sabotage in regulated industries 0 0 0 4 5 5 6 105
Privately-Negotiated Input Prices 0 0 0 39 3 7 7 246
Privatization, information and incentives 0 1 5 91 1 9 24 410
Procurement contracts: Theory vs. practice 0 0 0 53 1 3 7 201
Profiting from 'countervailing' power: An effect of government control 0 0 0 15 2 2 4 108
Regulating Service Quality: A Survey 0 1 6 519 4 9 19 950
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 0 2 170 3 8 13 384
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 95 4 6 10 283
Regulating horizontal diversification 0 0 0 88 1 2 9 528
Regulating regulators in transitionally competitive markets 0 0 0 23 3 4 5 111
Regulating without Cost Information: Further Observations 0 0 0 9 3 4 4 88
Regulating without Cost Information: The Incremental Surplus Subsidy Scheme 0 0 1 130 1 4 7 452
Regulation in Vertically-Related Industries: Myths, Facts, and Policy 0 0 0 57 3 5 6 156
Regulation in a ‘Deregulated’ Industry: Railroads in the Post-Staggers Era 0 0 2 21 3 6 13 137
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 0 1 4 141 5 23 32 1,190
Regulatory Incentive Policies and Abuse 0 0 0 0 4 6 8 146
Regulatory Options and Price-Cap Regulation 0 0 0 114 2 6 7 373
Resolving Double Moral Hazard Problems with Buyout Agreements 0 0 1 199 3 5 11 765
Revealing transactions data to third parties: Implications of privacy regimes for welfare in online markets 0 0 0 10 1 2 3 40
Revenue sharing in incentive regulation plans 0 0 0 103 7 10 10 319
Reviewing the impact of incentive regulation on U.S. telephone service quality 0 0 0 101 4 7 7 417
SOURCING WITH UNVERIFIABLE PERFORMANCE INFORMATION 0 0 0 14 4 5 9 65
Sabotaging cost containment 0 0 0 20 3 4 7 79
Second Sourcing 1 1 4 83 4 6 11 366
Self-Sabotage 0 0 0 63 4 8 8 573
Sequential Regulatory Oversight 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 95
Setting the X Factor in Price-Cap Regulation Plans 0 0 3 495 5 7 17 1,411
Sharing Productive Knowledge in Internally Financed R&D Contests 0 0 1 58 5 8 11 223
Simple Cost-Sharing Contracts 0 0 2 103 3 6 9 725
Simple regulatory policies in the presence of demand and cost uncertainty 0 0 0 9 4 4 6 91
Strategic Firm Behavior under a Dynamic Regulatory Adjustment Process 0 0 1 110 6 6 8 413
Strategic Nonlinear Pricing under Price-Cap Regulation 0 0 0 133 5 6 8 429
Supplying Information to Facilitate Price Discrimination 0 1 7 489 3 10 18 1,162
Targeting efforts to raise rivals' costs: Moving from “Whether” to “Whom” 0 0 0 16 6 10 15 99
Technological Change and the Boundaries of the Firm 0 0 0 102 6 10 13 369
The Bright Side of Supplier Encroachment 0 2 6 66 6 17 37 464
The Effects of Incentive Regulation in the Telecommunications Industry: A Survey 0 0 0 2 4 6 10 1,025
The Effects of Incentive Regulation on Retail Telephone Service Quality in the United States 0 0 0 77 4 4 4 228
The Impact of State Incentive Regulation on the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 2 2 3 241 8 20 29 902
The Impact of Wholesale Price Caps on Forward Contracting 0 0 3 3 3 7 17 17
The Make-or-Buy Decision in the Presence of a Rival: Strategic Outsourcing to a Common Supplier 0 0 1 27 4 12 18 195
The State of Performance-Based Regulation in the U.S. Electric Utility Industry 0 0 0 80 4 6 8 226
The evolution of contracting: evidence from the US freight rail industry 0 1 2 2 2 7 10 10
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 3 10 11 14 37
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 0 4 4 7 15
The impact of vertical integration on losses from collusion 0 0 1 3 2 6 13 27
The political economy of voluntary public service 2 2 2 4 4 4 6 18
To Brand or Not to Brand? A Theoretical and Empirical Question 0 0 0 132 5 7 9 415
Toward a Benchmark for Optimal Prudency Policy 0 0 0 0 3 4 7 113
Toward a Synthesis of Models of Regulatory Policy Design with Limited Information 0 1 1 227 2 3 8 418
Using Subjective Risk Adjusting to Prevent Patient Dumping in the Health Care Industry 1 1 1 53 5 5 9 248
Using decoupling and deep pockets to mitigate judgment-proof problems1 0 0 0 15 2 6 9 90
Using markets to allocate pollution permits and other scarce resource rights under limited information 0 0 0 48 7 10 13 212
Vertical Merger Policy: Special Considerations in Regulated Industries 1 1 1 6 3 3 4 19
Vertical integration and capacity investment in the electricity sector 0 0 3 13 4 8 15 38
Welfare effects of limiting bank loans 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 10
Welfare-enhancing fraudulent behavior 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 6
When do auctions ensure the welfare-maximizing allocation of scarce inputs? 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 45
Total Journal Articles 14 39 154 13,300 579 983 1,584 46,070
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry 0 1 2 34 5 6 9 134
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fifth edition 0 0 0 0 11 24 126 2,181
Total Books 0 1 2 34 16 30 135 2,315


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Recent Developments in the Theory of Regulation 3 7 20 1,263 7 28 66 2,873
Total Chapters 3 7 20 1,263 7 28 66 2,873


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