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 3 3 5 649
An Optimal Rule for Patent Damages Under Sequential Innovation 0 0 2 250 0 4 9 532
Asymmetric Treatment of Identical Agents in Teams 0 0 0 41 1 4 5 175
Cpnservation and Incentive Regulation 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 185
Designing Incentive Regulation in the Electricity Sector 1 4 8 27 6 11 26 55
Does the Form of Physician Compensation Affect the Quality of Care in Medicaid HMOS? 0 0 0 35 1 2 4 213
Employing Gain-Sharing Regulation to Promote Forward Contracting in the Electricity Sector 0 0 0 16 0 2 4 18
Employing Simple Cost-Sharing Policies to Motivate the Efficient Implementation of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 48 0 2 5 76
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 81 1 1 2 292
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 260
Incentives for Sabotage in Vertically Related Industries 0 0 0 202 2 3 5 580
LINKING PRICE CAP AND RATE OF RETURN REGULATION 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,122
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 453
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 12
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 5 1 1 5 74
Load-Following Forward Contracts 0 0 0 38 7 8 15 160
MONITORING QUALITY PROVISIONS IN REGULATED MARKETS 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 613
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 0 0 0 19 2 2 8 44
Motivating the Optimal Procurement and Deployment of Electric Storage as a Transmission Asset 0 0 0 26 2 2 4 66
ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRM: SELF PROVISION VS. SUBCONTRACTING 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 536
OVERSIGHT OF LONG-TERM INVESTMENT BY SHORT-LIVED REGULATORS 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 253
On The Optimal Design of Demand Response Policies 0 0 0 56 0 0 1 180
On the Optimal Design of Distributed Generation Policies: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 0 58 1 2 2 156
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 1 80 1 1 7 195
On the Role of Maximum Demand Charges in the Presence of Distributed Generation Resources 0 0 0 50 1 2 5 127
Optimal Policies to Promote Efficient Distributed Generation of Electricity 0 0 0 99 1 1 3 177
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 1 76 0 1 2 174
Pareto Improving Inefficiency 0 0 0 24 1 1 2 71
Principles of regulatory policy design 0 1 3 313 1 3 12 1,796
Privatization, Information and Incentives 0 0 1 499 2 3 9 1,082
REVOLVING REGULATOR COMMISSIONS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 514
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 0 0 9 0 4 5 48
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 21 0 1 6 82
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 5
SELECTING AND AGENT'S ABILITY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 150
Self-Sabotage in the Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 45 0 2 3 100
Setting the X Factor in Price Cap Regulation Plans 0 0 1 1,390 2 3 8 3,675
The Impact of Wholesale Price Caps on Forward Contracting 0 0 0 15 0 1 8 24
Vertical Integration and Capacity Investment in the Electricity Sector 0 0 1 39 0 1 9 70
Total Working Papers 1 5 18 3,565 43 78 197 14,994


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 7 9 0 1 14 17
A note on optimal procurement contracts with limited direct cost inflation 0 0 0 22 0 1 2 97
Access pricing in network industries with mixed oligopoly 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 24
Access pricing with unregulated downstream competition 0 0 0 80 0 1 3 280
All entrepreneurial productivity increases are not created equal 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 40
All-or-nothing information control 0 0 1 98 2 3 8 230
An Incentive Approach to Banking Regulation 0 0 2 229 0 1 5 601
An Informational Effect When Regulated Firms Enter Unregulated Markets 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 146
An optimal rule for patent damages under sequential innovation 0 0 0 17 0 1 2 67
Asset Revaluation Regulations* 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 7
Asymmetric treatment of identical agents in teams 0 0 0 24 1 6 9 214
Awarding Monopoly Franchises 0 2 2 263 2 4 9 834
Choosing Workers' Qualifications: No Experience Necessary? 0 0 0 75 0 0 3 452
Choosing among Regulatory Options in the United States Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 49 0 0 1 195
Commitment to regulatory bureaucracy 0 0 0 38 1 1 2 115
Competition among Health Maintenance Organizations 0 0 0 25 2 4 4 121
Competitive Procurement of Auditing Services with Limited Information 0 0 2 14 2 2 6 50
Contracting with Private Knowledge of Production Capacity 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 31
Contracting with Wealth-Constrained Agents 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 162
Contracting with private knowledge of signal quality 0 0 1 10 0 0 1 87
Countervailing incentives in agency problems 1 4 11 780 3 8 19 1,331
DELEGATED EXPERTISE 0 0 1 47 2 4 8 140
Designing Compensation for Distributed Solar Generation: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 0 46 3 3 7 185
Designing Compensation for Distributed Solar Generation: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 1 2 3 1 3 8 11
Designing Optional No-Fault Insurance Policies for Health Care Systems 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 141
Designing Optional No‐Fault Insurance Policies for Health Care Systems 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
Designing input prices to motivate process innovation 0 0 1 43 2 6 10 255
Designing optimal gain sharing plans to promote energy conservation 0 0 0 6 1 1 2 81
Does the quality of care in Medicaid MCOs vary with the form of physician compensation? 0 0 0 55 1 1 3 304
Economic Issues at the Federal Communications Commission 0 0 0 9 0 1 2 75
Efficient Awards and Standards of Proof in Judicial Proceedings 0 1 1 84 3 4 8 459
Efficient Manipulation in a Repeated Setting 0 1 2 23 1 7 12 114
Employing cost sharing to motivate the efficient implementation of distributed energy resources 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 23
Employing gain-sharing regulation to promote forward contracting in the electricity sector 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 12
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 34 0 1 4 152
Equity and Adverse Selection 0 0 0 69 0 0 1 278
Equity and adverse selection with correlated costs 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 157
Exclusive Contracts, Innovation, and Welfare 0 0 1 61 3 3 11 226
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 7
Explaining the Choice among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 287
Extreme screening policies 0 0 1 9 0 0 5 101
HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE AND RESPONSIBILITY ACCOUNTING 0 2 3 18 1 6 9 55
Hierarchical Regulatory Control 0 0 0 59 1 1 2 238
How Liable Should a Lender Be? The Case of Judgment-Proof Firms and Environmental Risk: Comment 0 0 0 67 3 3 5 357
How to determine the X in RPI-X regulation: a user's guide 0 1 4 86 0 3 10 287
INNOVATION IN VERTICALLY RELATED MARKETS* 1 2 4 147 1 2 11 446
Ignorance in Agency Problems 0 0 2 175 1 1 6 317
Implementing high‐powered contracts to motivate intertemporal effort supply 0 0 0 41 0 0 3 177
In memoriam to Michael A. Crew (1942–2016) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17
Incentive Regulation and Telecommunications Service Quality 0 0 0 153 1 1 5 492
Incentive contracting with asymmetric and imperfect precontractual knowledge 0 0 0 39 0 0 1 72
Incentive schemes with multiple agents and bankruptcy constraints 0 0 0 67 0 0 5 204
Incentives for Anticompetitive Behavior by Public Enterprises 0 0 0 31 0 1 4 183
Incentives for Conservation and Quality-Improvement by Public Utilities 0 0 0 60 0 0 1 185
Incentives for Monitoring Quality 0 0 0 62 2 4 7 262
Incentives for sabotage in vertically related industries 0 0 1 100 1 7 10 345
Incentives in Principal-Agent Relationships 0 0 4 1,850 1 4 22 4,251
Inflexible Rules in Incentive Problems 0 0 0 72 0 0 1 428
Information Management in Incentive Problems 0 0 2 34 2 3 10 650
Information, Incentives, and Organizational Mode 0 0 1 135 3 5 8 341
Insurance, Adverse Selection, and Cream-Skimming 0 0 0 105 0 1 2 338
LINE-ITEM REPORTING, FACTOR ACQUISITION, AND SUBCONTRACTING 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 13
Licensing and the sharing of knowledge in research joint ventures 0 0 0 156 3 5 12 381
Limited liability contracts between principal and agent 0 1 6 547 0 3 12 1,155
Load-Following Forward Contracts 0 1 2 2 2 5 8 13
Managing Supplier Switching 0 0 1 77 0 0 2 340
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 1 1 1 5 6 6 13 24
Motivating Wealth-Constrained Actors 0 0 1 79 0 2 4 496
Motivating cost reduction in regulated industries with rolling incentive schemes 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2
Motivating energy suppliers to promote energy conservation 0 0 0 15 0 0 3 68
Motivating regulated suppliers to assess alternative technologies, protocols, and capital structures 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 41
Motivating the optimal procurement and deployment of electric storage as a transmission asset 0 0 0 5 1 2 6 25
Multi-agent control in perfectly correlated environments 0 0 0 43 0 0 1 122
On the Irrelevance of Input Prices for Make-or-Buy Decisions 0 0 0 123 1 2 5 417
On the Merits of Antitrust Liability in Regulated Industries 0 0 1 10 1 3 4 62
On the Merits of Vertical Divestiture 0 0 0 45 0 2 3 163
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 93
On the design of input prices: Can TELRIC prices ever be optimal? 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 101
On the design of performance measurement plans in the telecommunications industry 0 0 0 5 1 1 2 24
On the design of piece-rate contracts 0 0 0 34 1 1 3 165
On the design of price caps as sanctions 0 0 0 0 1 4 9 9
On the optimal design of demand response policies 0 0 0 13 0 5 6 92
On the performance of endogenous access pricing 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 51
On the profitability of self‐sabotage 0 0 1 2 1 2 3 17
On the role of maximum demand charges in the presence of distributed generation resources 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 50
On the timing of information release 1 1 1 55 1 3 4 105
Optimal Capital Structure in Agency Relationships 0 0 0 84 1 1 5 386
Optimal Contracting with Private Knowledge of Wealth and Ability 0 0 0 8 2 2 5 261
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 16 0 0 5 66
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 3
Optimal Regulation of Research and Development under Imperfect Information 0 0 1 76 3 3 4 467
Optimal Regulation of a Multiproduct Monopoly with Unknown Technological Capabilities 0 0 0 132 1 6 6 624
Optimal contracts with public ex post information 0 0 0 266 0 0 1 484
Optimal incentive contracts with multiple agents 0 0 6 588 0 2 11 983
Optimal industrial targeting with unknown learning-by-doing 0 0 0 23 1 1 3 219
Optimal policies to promote efficient distributed generation of electricity 0 0 2 18 2 4 6 77
Optimal revenue adjustment in the presence of exogenous demand variation 0 0 1 3 3 6 8 12
Outsourcing, vertical integration, and price vs. quantity competition 0 0 3 294 3 4 18 797
Oversight of Long-Term Investment by Short-Lived Regulators 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 148
Pareto Gains from Limiting Compensation Options 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 4
Pareto-improving inefficiency 0 0 0 15 1 2 2 83
Penalizing Success in Dynamic Incentive Contracts: No. Good Deed Goes Unpunished? 0 0 0 35 1 2 6 296
Potential pitfalls in empirical investigations of the effects of incentive regulation plans in the telecommunications industry 0 0 1 19 1 1 2 82
Precontractual information asymmetry between principal and agent: The Continuous Case 0 0 0 28 0 0 0 100
Price cap regulation: what have we learned from 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry? 1 1 2 146 4 4 8 405
Pricing to preclude sabotage in regulated industries 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 100
Privately-Negotiated Input Prices 0 0 0 39 1 1 1 240
Privatization, information and incentives 0 1 5 90 2 7 20 403
Procurement contracts: Theory vs. practice 0 0 0 53 0 0 6 198
Profiting from 'countervailing' power: An effect of government control 0 0 0 15 0 1 2 106
Regulating Service Quality: A Survey 1 2 6 519 2 6 12 943
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 1 2 170 1 2 7 377
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 95 1 2 5 278
Regulating horizontal diversification 0 0 0 88 0 0 7 526
Regulating regulators in transitionally competitive markets 0 0 0 23 0 0 1 107
Regulating without Cost Information: Further Observations 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 84
Regulating without Cost Information: The Incremental Surplus Subsidy Scheme 0 0 1 130 2 2 7 450
Regulation in Vertically-Related Industries: Myths, Facts, and Policy 0 0 0 57 0 0 1 151
Regulation in a ‘Deregulated’ Industry: Railroads in the Post-Staggers Era 0 0 2 21 0 2 8 131
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 0 1 4 140 9 13 19 1,176
Regulatory Incentive Policies and Abuse 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 141
Regulatory Options and Price-Cap Regulation 0 0 0 114 1 1 2 368
Resolving Double Moral Hazard Problems with Buyout Agreements 0 0 1 199 1 3 8 761
Revealing transactions data to third parties: Implications of privacy regimes for welfare in online markets 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 38
Revenue sharing in incentive regulation plans 0 0 0 103 2 2 2 311
Reviewing the impact of incentive regulation on U.S. telephone service quality 0 0 0 101 0 0 0 410
SOURCING WITH UNVERIFIABLE PERFORMANCE INFORMATION 0 0 1 14 0 1 6 60
Sabotaging cost containment 0 0 0 20 0 1 3 75
Second Sourcing 0 0 3 82 1 1 7 361
Self-Sabotage 0 0 0 63 2 2 3 567
Sequential Regulatory Oversight 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 93
Setting the X Factor in Price-Cap Regulation Plans 0 0 4 495 2 3 14 1,406
Sharing Productive Knowledge in Internally Financed R&D Contests 0 0 1 58 0 0 3 215
Simple Cost-Sharing Contracts 0 1 2 103 2 4 5 721
Simple regulatory policies in the presence of demand and cost uncertainty 0 0 0 9 0 2 2 87
Strategic Firm Behavior under a Dynamic Regulatory Adjustment Process 0 0 1 110 0 0 2 407
Strategic Nonlinear Pricing under Price-Cap Regulation 0 0 0 133 0 1 2 423
Supplying Information to Facilitate Price Discrimination 0 0 12 488 2 2 19 1,154
Targeting efforts to raise rivals' costs: Moving from “Whether” to “Whom” 0 0 0 16 1 2 6 90
Technological Change and the Boundaries of the Firm 0 0 0 102 1 2 4 360
The Bright Side of Supplier Encroachment 1 4 5 65 8 18 28 455
The Effects of Incentive Regulation in the Telecommunications Industry: A Survey 0 0 0 2 1 2 6 1,020
The Effects of Incentive Regulation on Retail Telephone Service Quality in the United States 0 0 0 77 0 0 0 224
The Impact of State Incentive Regulation on the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 1 239 6 6 18 888
The Impact of Wholesale Price Caps on Forward Contracting 0 1 3 3 1 4 11 11
The Make-or-Buy Decision in the Presence of a Rival: Strategic Outsourcing to a Common Supplier 0 0 2 27 5 6 12 188
The State of Performance-Based Regulation in the U.S. Electric Utility Industry 0 0 0 80 1 2 3 221
The evolution of contracting: evidence from the US freight rail industry 1 2 2 2 1 2 4 4
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 11
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 3 1 2 4 27
The impact of vertical integration on losses from collusion 0 0 1 3 0 4 7 21
The political economy of voluntary public service 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 14
To Brand or Not to Brand? A Theoretical and Empirical Question 0 0 0 132 1 2 3 409
Toward a Benchmark for Optimal Prudency Policy 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 110
Toward a Synthesis of Models of Regulatory Policy Design with Limited Information 1 1 1 227 1 2 6 416
Using Subjective Risk Adjusting to Prevent Patient Dumping in the Health Care Industry 0 0 0 52 0 2 4 243
Using decoupling and deep pockets to mitigate judgment-proof problems1 0 0 0 15 4 6 7 88
Using markets to allocate pollution permits and other scarce resource rights under limited information 0 0 0 48 3 3 6 205
Vertical Merger Policy: Special Considerations in Regulated Industries 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 16
Vertical integration and capacity investment in the electricity sector 0 0 3 13 4 5 14 34
Welfare effects of limiting bank loans 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 8
Welfare-enhancing fraudulent behavior 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2
When do auctions ensure the welfare-maximizing allocation of scarce inputs? 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 45
Total Journal Articles 9 34 151 13,270 174 349 867 45,261
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry 1 1 2 34 1 3 4 129
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fifth edition 0 0 0 0 8 21 143 2,165
Total Books 1 1 2 34 9 24 147 2,294


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Recent Developments in the Theory of Regulation 3 4 18 1,259 12 22 54 2,857
Total Chapters 3 4 18 1,259 12 22 54 2,857


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