Access Statistics for David E. M. Sappington

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An Incentive Approach to Banking Regulation 0 0 0 0 3 11 29 675
An Optimal Rule for Patent Damages Under Sequential Innovation 0 0 0 250 2 9 20 547
Asymmetric Treatment of Identical Agents in Teams 0 0 0 41 1 2 10 180
Cpnservation and Incentive Regulation 0 0 0 0 2 4 13 198
Designing Incentive Regulation in the Electricity Sector 0 0 6 27 4 10 32 69
Does the Form of Physician Compensation Affect the Quality of Care in Medicaid HMOS? 0 0 0 35 2 2 10 219
Employing Gain-Sharing Regulation to Promote Forward Contracting in the Electricity Sector 0 0 1 17 2 7 16 32
Employing Simple Cost-Sharing Policies to Motivate the Efficient Implementation of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 48 2 2 6 80
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 81 2 8 15 305
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 0 4 7 12 269
Incentives for Sabotage in Vertically Related Industries 0 0 0 202 2 6 16 591
LINKING PRICE CAP AND RATE OF RETURN REGULATION 0 0 0 0 2 2 9 1,131
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 1 1 4 7 19
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 2 1 3 7 460
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 5 1 3 11 80
Load-Following Forward Contracts 0 1 1 39 2 10 26 175
MONITORING QUALITY PROVISIONS IN REGULATED MARKETS 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 619
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 0 0 0 19 2 2 7 49
Motivating the Optimal Procurement and Deployment of Electric Storage as a Transmission Asset 0 0 0 26 0 0 10 74
ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRM: SELF PROVISION VS. SUBCONTRACTING 0 0 0 0 1 4 10 543
OVERSIGHT OF LONG-TERM INVESTMENT BY SHORT-LIVED REGULATORS 0 0 0 0 2 6 16 266
On The Optimal Design of Demand Response Policies 0 0 0 56 2 4 12 192
On the Optimal Design of Distributed Generation Policies: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 0 58 2 3 9 163
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 0 80 1 7 15 207
On the Role of Maximum Demand Charges in the Presence of Distributed Generation Resources 0 0 0 50 0 1 8 133
Optimal Policies to Promote Efficient Distributed Generation of Electricity 0 0 0 99 2 3 7 183
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 76 3 3 5 178
Pareto Improving Inefficiency 0 0 0 24 1 4 11 81
Principles of regulatory policy design 0 1 4 315 2 7 18 1,807
Privatization, Information and Incentives 0 0 1 499 3 4 23 1,099
REVOLVING REGULATOR COMMISSIONS 0 0 0 0 2 5 9 523
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 0 0 9 3 5 14 57
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 21 3 7 13 92
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 0 0 1 1 4 7 18 18
SELECTING AND AGENT'S ABILITY 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 159
Self-Sabotage in the Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 45 2 3 6 104
Setting the X Factor in Price Cap Regulation Plans 0 0 2 1,392 2 7 19 3,690
The Impact of Wholesale Price Caps on Forward Contracting 1 1 1 16 2 4 10 29
Vertical Integration and Capacity Investment in the Electricity Sector 0 0 0 39 3 8 17 82
Total Working Papers 1 3 17 3,573 76 189 513 15,378


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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40 Years of Incentive Regulation: What Have We Learned, and What Questions Remain? 1 1 4 10 9 13 23 35
A note on optimal procurement contracts with limited direct cost inflation 0 0 0 22 0 1 5 100
Access pricing in network industries with mixed oligopoly 0 0 2 6 0 3 7 29
Access pricing with unregulated downstream competition 0 0 0 80 4 6 12 291
All entrepreneurial productivity increases are not created equal 0 0 0 1 4 6 11 49
All-or-nothing information control 1 1 1 99 2 4 10 235
An Incentive Approach to Banking Regulation 0 0 1 229 1 3 22 619
An Informational Effect When Regulated Firms Enter Unregulated Markets 0 0 0 0 1 4 11 154
An optimal rule for patent damages under sequential innovation 0 0 0 17 2 8 15 80
Asset Revaluation Regulations* 0 0 1 1 3 4 7 13
Asymmetric treatment of identical agents in teams 0 0 0 24 3 4 21 227
Awarding Monopoly Franchises 0 1 3 264 0 4 22 850
Choosing Workers' Qualifications: No Experience Necessary? 0 0 0 75 2 4 12 462
Choosing among Regulatory Options in the United States Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 49 1 5 11 205
Commitment to regulatory bureaucracy 0 0 0 38 0 2 10 123
Competition among Health Maintenance Organizations 0 0 0 25 1 1 11 128
Competitive Procurement of Auditing Services with Limited Information 0 0 1 14 2 2 8 54
Contracting with Private Knowledge of Production Capacity 0 0 0 8 1 1 8 38
Contracting with Wealth-Constrained Agents 0 0 0 15 0 1 6 167
Contracting with private knowledge of signal quality 0 0 1 10 1 1 6 92
Countervailing incentives in agency problems 0 0 11 782 3 6 29 1,345
DELEGATED EXPERTISE 0 0 1 48 1 5 14 150
Designing Compensation for Distributed Solar Generation: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 1 1 3 4 1 5 12 18
Designing Optional No-Fault Insurance Policies for Health Care Systems 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 144
Designing Optional No‐Fault Insurance Policies for Health Care Systems 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 10
Designing input prices to motivate process innovation 0 0 0 43 1 6 21 267
Designing optimal gain sharing plans to promote energy conservation 0 0 0 6 3 7 11 91
Does the quality of care in Medicaid MCOs vary with the form of physician compensation? 0 0 0 55 1 1 13 314
Economic Issues at the Federal Communications Commission 0 0 0 9 2 2 10 83
Efficient Awards and Standards of Proof in Judicial Proceedings 0 0 2 85 2 3 13 466
Efficient Manipulation in a Repeated Setting 0 0 1 23 0 0 10 115
Employing cost sharing to motivate the efficient implementation of distributed energy resources 0 0 0 6 1 3 5 27
Employing gain-sharing regulation to promote forward contracting in the electricity sector 1 2 3 4 7 10 25 34
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 34 1 3 14 163
Equity and Adverse Selection 0 0 0 69 1 3 11 288
Equity and adverse selection with correlated costs 0 0 0 19 0 4 10 167
Exclusive Contracts, Innovation, and Welfare 0 0 0 61 0 7 19 236
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 1 3 5 10 14
Explaining the Choice among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 0 1 3 7 292
Extreme screening policies 0 0 0 9 5 6 13 113
HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE AND RESPONSIBILITY ACCOUNTING 0 0 2 18 1 3 16 64
Hierarchical Regulatory Control 0 0 0 59 2 2 9 245
How Liable Should a Lender Be? The Case of Judgment-Proof Firms and Environmental Risk: Comment 0 0 0 67 0 6 19 371
How to determine the X in RPI-X regulation: a user's guide 1 1 3 87 4 4 15 297
INNOVATION IN VERTICALLY RELATED MARKETS* 0 0 3 148 1 5 19 458
Ignorance in Agency Problems 0 2 4 178 0 3 14 327
Implementing high‐powered contracts to motivate intertemporal effort supply 0 0 0 41 3 9 13 190
In memoriam to Michael A. Crew (1942–2016) 0 0 0 0 1 4 6 22
Incentive Regulation and Telecommunications Service Quality 0 0 0 153 3 3 8 497
Incentive contracting with asymmetric and imperfect precontractual knowledge 0 0 0 39 2 2 6 77
Incentive schemes with multiple agents and bankruptcy constraints 0 0 0 67 1 1 6 206
Incentives for Anticompetitive Behavior by Public Enterprises 1 1 1 32 3 7 13 194
Incentives for Conservation and Quality-Improvement by Public Utilities 0 0 0 60 2 3 8 192
Incentives for Monitoring Quality 0 0 0 62 1 2 9 267
Incentives for sabotage in vertically related industries 0 0 0 100 4 4 17 353
Incentives in Principal-Agent Relationships 0 1 3 1,851 2 7 32 4,271
Inflexible Rules in Incentive Problems 0 0 0 72 1 5 11 438
Information Management in Incentive Problems 0 1 6 38 2 10 27 668
Information, Incentives, and Organizational Mode 0 0 0 135 1 3 12 346
Insurance, Adverse Selection, and Cream-Skimming 0 0 0 105 2 5 9 345
LINE-ITEM REPORTING, FACTOR ACQUISITION, AND SUBCONTRACTING 0 0 0 0 1 2 12 23
Licensing and the sharing of knowledge in research joint ventures 0 0 1 157 2 7 28 398
Limited liability contracts between principal and agent 0 0 2 547 2 4 15 1,163
Load-Following Forward Contracts 0 0 2 2 3 3 13 20
Managing Supplier Switching 0 0 1 77 4 6 11 350
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 0 0 1 5 0 0 13 26
Motivating Wealth-Constrained Actors 0 0 0 79 2 6 9 502
Motivating cost reduction in regulated industries with rolling incentive schemes 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 7
Motivating energy suppliers to promote energy conservation 0 0 0 15 3 7 11 77
Motivating regulated suppliers to assess alternative technologies, protocols, and capital structures 0 0 0 5 3 4 11 50
Motivating the optimal procurement and deployment of electric storage as a transmission asset 0 0 1 6 3 4 12 34
Multi-agent control in perfectly correlated environments 0 0 0 43 0 1 6 127
On the Irrelevance of Input Prices for Make-or-Buy Decisions 0 0 0 123 3 3 9 423
On the Merits of Antitrust Liability in Regulated Industries 0 0 1 10 1 2 11 69
On the Merits of Vertical Divestiture 0 0 0 45 2 4 13 173
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 0 0 4 7 17 106
On the design of input prices: Can TELRIC prices ever be optimal? 0 0 0 40 2 3 5 106
On the design of performance measurement plans in the telecommunications industry 0 0 0 5 1 2 8 31
On the design of piece-rate contracts 0 0 0 34 3 3 12 174
On the design of price caps as sanctions 0 1 2 2 5 9 26 26
On the optimal design of demand response policies 0 0 0 13 0 2 12 98
On the performance of endogenous access pricing 0 0 0 3 2 4 11 60
On the profitability of self‐sabotage 0 0 0 2 2 5 13 28
On the role of maximum demand charges in the presence of distributed generation resources 0 0 0 4 3 4 8 58
On the timing of information release 0 0 1 55 0 1 8 109
Optimal Capital Structure in Agency Relationships 0 0 0 84 1 1 7 390
Optimal Contracting with Private Knowledge of Wealth and Ability 0 0 0 8 4 8 18 275
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 0 4 4 6 7
Optimal Regulation of Research and Development under Imperfect Information 0 0 0 76 1 2 9 473
Optimal Regulation of a Multiproduct Monopoly with Unknown Technological Capabilities 0 0 0 132 5 7 20 638
Optimal contracts with public ex post information 0 0 1 267 2 6 21 505
Optimal incentive contracts with multiple agents 0 0 3 589 3 3 10 987
Optimal industrial targeting with unknown learning-by-doing 0 0 0 23 1 2 6 222
Optimal policies to promote efficient distributed generation of electricity 0 0 1 18 4 5 14 86
Optimal revenue adjustment in the presence of exogenous demand variation 0 0 2 4 5 10 21 25
Outsourcing, vertical integration, and price vs. quantity competition 0 0 2 294 0 2 23 805
Oversight of Long-Term Investment by Short-Lived Regulators 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 155
Pareto Gains from Limiting Compensation Options 0 0 0 0 1 3 13 15
Pareto-improving inefficiency 0 0 0 15 1 2 7 88
Penalizing Success in Dynamic Incentive Contracts: No. Good Deed Goes Unpunished? 0 0 0 35 1 2 7 301
Potential pitfalls in empirical investigations of the effects of incentive regulation plans in the telecommunications industry 0 0 0 19 0 5 9 90
Precontractual information asymmetry between principal and agent: The Continuous Case 0 0 0 28 0 1 3 103
Price cap regulation: what have we learned from 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry? 0 0 2 147 2 3 14 412
Pricing to preclude sabotage in regulated industries 0 0 0 4 3 5 11 110
Privately-Negotiated Input Prices 0 0 0 39 1 3 10 249
Privatization, information and incentives 0 0 4 91 3 5 23 415
Procurement contracts: Theory vs. practice 0 0 0 53 1 3 9 204
Profiting from 'countervailing' power: An effect of government control 0 0 0 15 2 2 5 110
REVISITING THE CONDITIONS FOR FULLY REVEALING DISCLOSURE 0 0 0 0 4 5 5 5
Regulating Service Quality: A Survey 0 1 5 520 2 6 22 956
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 0 1 170 1 2 13 386
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 95 3 4 13 287
Regulating horizontal diversification 0 1 1 89 1 6 8 534
Regulating regulators in transitionally competitive markets 0 0 0 23 1 2 6 113
Regulating without Cost Information: Further Observations 1 1 1 10 3 3 7 91
Regulating without Cost Information: The Incremental Surplus Subsidy Scheme 1 1 2 131 3 5 11 457
Regulation in Vertically-Related Industries: Myths, Facts, and Policy 0 0 0 57 2 3 8 159
Regulation in a ‘Deregulated’ Industry: Railroads in the Post-Staggers Era 0 0 2 21 1 4 15 141
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 0 0 4 141 3 8 38 1,198
Regulatory Incentive Policies and Abuse 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 147
Regulatory Options and Price-Cap Regulation 0 0 0 114 6 8 15 381
Resolving Double Moral Hazard Problems with Buyout Agreements 0 0 0 199 0 2 11 767
Revealing transactions data to third parties: Implications of privacy regimes for welfare in online markets 0 0 0 10 3 5 8 45
Revenue sharing in incentive regulation plans 0 0 0 103 2 3 13 322
Reviewing the impact of incentive regulation on U.S. telephone service quality 0 0 0 101 3 5 12 422
SOURCING WITH UNVERIFIABLE PERFORMANCE INFORMATION 0 0 0 14 0 1 8 66
Sabotaging cost containment 0 0 0 20 4 5 12 84
Second Sourcing 0 0 3 83 2 4 13 370
Self-Sabotage 0 0 0 63 1 3 11 576
Sequential Regulatory Oversight 0 0 0 0 0 4 7 99
Setting the X Factor in Price-Cap Regulation Plans 1 1 1 496 4 8 19 1,419
Sharing Productive Knowledge in Internally Financed R&D Contests 0 0 0 58 1 1 9 224
Simple Cost-Sharing Contracts 0 0 1 103 0 1 9 726
Simple regulatory policies in the presence of demand and cost uncertainty 0 0 0 9 1 1 7 92
Strategic Firm Behavior under a Dynamic Regulatory Adjustment Process 0 0 0 110 0 0 6 413
Strategic Nonlinear Pricing under Price-Cap Regulation 0 0 0 133 2 6 13 435
Supplying Information to Facilitate Price Discrimination 0 1 5 490 0 4 19 1,166
Targeting efforts to raise rivals' costs: Moving from “Whether” to “Whom” 0 0 0 16 2 11 26 110
Technological Change and the Boundaries of the Firm 0 0 0 102 1 2 14 371
The Bright Side of Supplier Encroachment 3 5 10 71 12 17 51 481
The Effects of Incentive Regulation in the Telecommunications Industry: A Survey 0 0 0 2 0 1 10 1,026
The Effects of Incentive Regulation on Retail Telephone Service Quality in the United States 0 0 0 77 2 2 6 230
The Impact of State Incentive Regulation on the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 1 3 242 1 3 25 905
The Impact of Wholesale Price Caps on Forward Contracting 0 0 3 3 4 9 26 26
The Make-or-Buy Decision in the Presence of a Rival: Strategic Outsourcing to a Common Supplier 0 0 1 27 2 2 17 197
The State of Performance-Based Regulation in the U.S. Electric Utility Industry 0 0 0 80 2 2 9 228
The evolution of contracting: evidence from the US freight rail industry 0 0 2 2 2 5 14 15
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 3 1 1 14 38
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 0 3 5 11 20
The impact of vertical integration on losses from collusion 0 0 0 3 3 6 17 33
The political economy of voluntary public service 0 0 2 4 2 3 9 21
To Brand or Not to Brand? A Theoretical and Empirical Question 0 0 0 132 5 7 15 422
Toward a Benchmark for Optimal Prudency Policy 0 0 0 0 2 4 10 117
Toward a Synthesis of Models of Regulatory Policy Design with Limited Information 0 0 1 227 1 2 9 420
Using Subjective Risk Adjusting to Prevent Patient Dumping in the Health Care Industry 0 0 1 53 0 3 12 251
Using decoupling and deep pockets to mitigate judgment-proof problems1 0 0 0 15 1 2 10 92
Using markets to allocate pollution permits and other scarce resource rights under limited information 0 0 0 48 0 2 14 214
Vertical Merger Policy: Special Considerations in Regulated Industries 0 0 1 6 4 6 10 25
Vertical integration and capacity investment in the electricity sector 0 0 1 13 4 8 19 46
Welfare effects of limiting bank loans 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 14
Welfare-enhancing fraudulent behavior 0 0 0 0 4 4 10 10
When do auctions ensure the welfare-maximizing allocation of scarce inputs? 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 45
Total Journal Articles 12 25 135 13,263 317 648 2,051 46,457
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry 0 0 2 34 3 4 13 138
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fifth edition 0 0 0 0 8 25 115 2,206
Total Books 0 0 2 34 11 29 128 2,344


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Recent Developments in the Theory of Regulation 0 2 15 1,265 2 13 63 2,886
Total Chapters 0 2 15 1,265 2 13 63 2,886


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