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 5 8 10 654
An Optimal Rule for Patent Damages Under Sequential Innovation 0 0 2 250 2 5 10 534
Asymmetric Treatment of Identical Agents in Teams 0 0 0 41 0 4 5 175
Cpnservation and Incentive Regulation 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 186
Designing Incentive Regulation in the Electricity Sector 0 4 8 27 0 9 25 55
Does the Form of Physician Compensation Affect the Quality of Care in Medicaid HMOS? 0 0 0 35 1 3 5 214
Employing Gain-Sharing Regulation to Promote Forward Contracting in the Electricity Sector 0 0 0 16 1 3 5 19
Employing Simple Cost-Sharing Policies to Motivate the Efficient Implementation of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 48 0 0 5 76
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 81 0 1 2 292
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 260
Incentives for Sabotage in Vertically Related Industries 0 0 0 202 3 6 8 583
LINKING PRICE CAP AND RATE OF RETURN REGULATION 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1,123
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 2 1 1 1 454
Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures 0 0 0 5 1 2 6 75
Load-Following Forward Contracts 0 0 0 38 0 8 15 160
MONITORING QUALITY PROVISIONS IN REGULATED MARKETS 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 613
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 0 0 0 19 0 2 8 44
Motivating the Optimal Procurement and Deployment of Electric Storage as a Transmission Asset 0 0 0 26 4 6 8 70
ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRM: SELF PROVISION VS. SUBCONTRACTING 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 537
OVERSIGHT OF LONG-TERM INVESTMENT BY SHORT-LIVED REGULATORS 0 0 0 0 2 4 6 255
On The Optimal Design of Demand Response Policies 0 0 0 56 1 1 2 181
On the Optimal Design of Distributed Generation Policies: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 0 58 2 4 4 158
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 1 80 2 3 9 197
On the Role of Maximum Demand Charges in the Presence of Distributed Generation Resources 0 0 0 50 1 2 6 128
Optimal Policies to Promote Efficient Distributed Generation of Electricity 0 0 0 99 0 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 2 3 72
Principles of regulatory policy design 1 1 4 314 3 5 14 1,799
Privatization, Information and Incentives 0 0 1 499 6 9 15 1,088
REVOLVING REGULATOR COMMISSIONS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 514
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 0 0 9 1 2 6 49
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 21 2 3 8 84
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 1 1 1 1 3 4 8 8
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 1 2 4 101
Setting the X Factor in Price Cap Regulation Plans 0 0 1 1,390 3 6 9 3,678
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 1 2 10 71
Total Working Papers 2 6 20 3,567 50 117 242 15,044


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 6 9 0 1 12 17
A note on optimal procurement contracts with limited direct cost inflation 0 0 0 22 1 2 3 98
Access pricing in network industries with mixed oligopoly 1 1 1 5 1 2 3 25
Access pricing with unregulated downstream competition 0 0 0 80 1 1 3 281
All entrepreneurial productivity increases are not created equal 0 0 0 1 1 3 3 41
All-or-nothing information control 0 0 1 98 0 2 8 230
An Incentive Approach to Banking Regulation 0 0 1 229 3 4 7 604
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 0 1 1 0 0 1 7
Asymmetric treatment of identical agents in teams 0 0 0 24 4 9 13 218
Awarding Monopoly Franchises 0 0 2 263 4 6 13 838
Choosing Workers' Qualifications: No Experience Necessary? 0 0 0 75 4 4 7 456
Choosing among Regulatory Options in the United States Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 49 3 3 4 198
Commitment to regulatory bureaucracy 0 0 0 38 1 2 3 116
Competition among Health Maintenance Organizations 0 0 0 25 0 4 4 121
Competitive Procurement of Auditing Services with Limited Information 0 0 2 14 0 2 6 50
Contracting with Private Knowledge of Production Capacity 0 0 0 8 1 1 2 32
Contracting with Wealth-Constrained Agents 0 0 0 15 1 1 2 163
Contracting with private knowledge of signal quality 0 0 1 10 0 0 1 87
Countervailing incentives in agency problems 0 2 10 780 1 6 18 1,332
DELEGATED EXPERTISE 1 1 2 48 2 5 10 142
Designing Compensation for Distributed Solar Generation: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 1 2 3 0 3 8 11
Designing Compensation for Distributed Solar Generation: Is Net Metering Ever Optimal? 0 0 0 46 2 5 9 187
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 2 3 3 5
Designing input prices to motivate process innovation 0 0 1 43 1 6 11 256
Designing optimal gain sharing plans to promote energy conservation 0 0 0 6 2 3 4 83
Does the quality of care in Medicaid MCOs vary with the form of physician compensation? 0 0 0 55 1 2 4 305
Economic Issues at the Federal Communications Commission 0 0 0 9 1 2 3 76
Efficient Awards and Standards of Proof in Judicial Proceedings 1 2 2 85 1 5 9 460
Efficient Manipulation in a Repeated Setting 0 0 1 23 0 5 11 114
Employing cost sharing to motivate the efficient implementation of distributed energy resources 0 0 0 6 1 1 2 24
Employing gain-sharing regulation to promote forward contracting in the electricity sector 1 1 1 2 5 7 8 17
Equal Pay for Unequal Work: Limiting Sabotage in Teams 0 0 0 34 0 0 3 152
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 0 61 0 3 10 226
Explaining the Choice Among Regulatory Plans in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 8
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 1 1 6 102
HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE AND RESPONSIBILITY ACCOUNTING 0 2 2 18 2 7 10 57
Hierarchical Regulatory Control 0 0 0 59 3 4 5 241
How Liable Should a Lender Be? The Case of Judgment-Proof Firms and Environmental Risk: Comment 0 0 0 67 2 5 7 359
How to determine the X in RPI-X regulation: a user's guide 0 0 3 86 3 5 12 290
INNOVATION IN VERTICALLY RELATED MARKETS* 0 1 4 147 3 4 14 449
Ignorance in Agency Problems 1 1 3 176 1 2 7 318
Implementing high‐powered contracts to motivate intertemporal effort supply 0 0 0 41 0 0 2 177
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 0 1 5 492
Incentive contracting with asymmetric and imperfect precontractual knowledge 0 0 0 39 1 1 2 73
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 1 2 5 184
Incentives for Conservation and Quality-Improvement by Public Utilities 0 0 0 60 3 3 4 188
Incentives for Monitoring Quality 0 0 0 62 1 5 8 263
Incentives for sabotage in vertically related industries 0 0 1 100 0 5 10 345
Incentives in Principal-Agent Relationships 0 0 4 1,850 5 9 26 4,256
Inflexible Rules in Incentive Problems 0 0 0 72 3 3 4 431
Information Management in Incentive Problems 2 2 4 36 3 6 13 653
Information, Incentives, and Organizational Mode 0 0 1 135 1 6 9 342
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 1 2 4 14
Licensing and the sharing of knowledge in research joint ventures 0 0 0 156 1 6 13 382
Limited liability contracts between principal and agent 0 1 5 547 1 4 11 1,156
Load-Following Forward Contracts 0 0 2 2 0 4 8 13
Managing Supplier Switching 0 0 1 77 1 1 3 341
Market Structure, Risk Preferences, and Forward Contracting Incentives 0 1 1 5 0 6 13 24
Motivating Wealth-Constrained Actors 0 0 1 79 0 1 4 496
Motivating cost reduction in regulated industries with rolling incentive schemes 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Motivating energy suppliers to promote energy conservation 0 0 0 15 1 1 4 69
Motivating regulated suppliers to assess alternative technologies, protocols, and capital structures 0 0 0 5 2 2 4 43
Motivating the optimal procurement and deployment of electric storage as a transmission asset 1 1 1 6 3 5 9 28
Multi-agent control in perfectly correlated environments 0 0 0 43 1 1 2 123
On the Irrelevance of Input Prices for Make-or-Buy Decisions 0 0 0 123 1 3 6 418
On the Merits of Antitrust Liability in Regulated Industries 0 0 1 10 2 4 6 64
On the Merits of Vertical Divestiture 0 0 0 45 3 5 6 166
On the Performance of Linear Contracts 0 0 0 0 0 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 3 4 5 27
On the design of piece-rate contracts 0 0 0 34 1 2 4 166
On the design of price caps as sanctions 1 1 1 1 7 8 16 16
On the optimal design of demand response policies 0 0 0 13 2 6 8 94
On the performance of endogenous access pricing 0 0 0 3 2 3 4 53
On the profitability of self‐sabotage 0 0 1 2 2 4 5 19
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 0 1 1 55 1 4 5 106
Optimal Capital Structure in Agency Relationships 0 0 0 84 1 2 6 387
Optimal Contracting with Private Knowledge of Wealth and Ability 0 0 0 8 3 5 8 264
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3
Optimal Procurement of Distributed Energy Resources 0 0 0 16 1 1 5 67
Optimal Regulation of Research and Development under Imperfect Information 0 0 1 76 0 3 4 467
Optimal Regulation of a Multiproduct Monopoly with Unknown Technological Capabilities 0 0 0 132 4 10 10 628
Optimal contracts with public ex post information 0 0 0 266 0 0 1 484
Optimal incentive contracts with multiple agents 1 1 6 589 1 3 11 984
Optimal industrial targeting with unknown learning-by-doing 0 0 0 23 1 2 4 220
Optimal policies to promote efficient distributed generation of electricity 0 0 2 18 0 4 6 77
Optimal revenue adjustment in the presence of exogenous demand variation 1 1 2 4 1 7 9 13
Outsourcing, vertical integration, and price vs. quantity competition 0 0 3 294 1 5 18 798
Oversight of Long-Term Investment by Short-Lived Regulators 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 150
Pareto Gains from Limiting Compensation Options 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 5
Pareto-improving inefficiency 0 0 0 15 2 3 4 85
Penalizing Success in Dynamic Incentive Contracts: No. Good Deed Goes Unpunished? 0 0 0 35 0 2 6 296
Potential pitfalls in empirical investigations of the effects of incentive regulation plans in the telecommunications industry 0 0 1 19 0 1 2 82
Precontractual information asymmetry between principal and agent: The Continuous Case 0 0 0 28 1 1 1 101
Price cap regulation: what have we learned from 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry? 1 2 3 147 2 6 10 407
Pricing to preclude sabotage in regulated industries 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 100
Privately-Negotiated Input Prices 0 0 0 39 3 4 4 243
Privatization, information and incentives 1 2 5 91 6 13 25 409
Procurement contracts: Theory vs. practice 0 0 0 53 2 2 6 200
Profiting from 'countervailing' power: An effect of government control 0 0 0 15 0 0 2 106
Regulating Service Quality: A Survey 0 1 6 519 3 5 15 946
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand 0 0 2 170 4 5 11 381
Regulating a Monopolist with Unknown Demand and Cost Functions 0 0 0 95 1 3 6 279
Regulating horizontal diversification 0 0 0 88 1 1 8 527
Regulating regulators in transitionally competitive markets 0 0 0 23 1 1 2 108
Regulating without Cost Information: Further Observations 0 0 0 9 1 1 1 85
Regulating without Cost Information: The Incremental Surplus Subsidy Scheme 0 0 1 130 1 3 6 451
Regulation in Vertically-Related Industries: Myths, Facts, and Policy 0 0 0 57 2 2 3 153
Regulation in a ‘Deregulated’ Industry: Railroads in the Post-Staggers Era 0 0 2 21 3 5 10 134
Regulation, Competition and Liberalization 1 2 5 141 9 22 28 1,185
Regulatory Incentive Policies and Abuse 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 142
Regulatory Options and Price-Cap Regulation 0 0 0 114 3 4 5 371
Resolving Double Moral Hazard Problems with Buyout Agreements 0 0 1 199 1 4 9 762
Revealing transactions data to third parties: Implications of privacy regimes for welfare in online markets 0 0 0 10 1 1 2 39
Revenue sharing in incentive regulation plans 0 0 0 103 1 3 3 312
Reviewing the impact of incentive regulation on U.S. telephone service quality 0 0 0 101 3 3 3 413
SOURCING WITH UNVERIFIABLE PERFORMANCE INFORMATION 0 0 0 14 1 2 6 61
Sabotaging cost containment 0 0 0 20 1 2 4 76
Second Sourcing 0 0 3 82 1 2 8 362
Self-Sabotage 0 0 0 63 2 4 5 569
Sequential Regulatory Oversight 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 94
Setting the X Factor in Price-Cap Regulation Plans 0 0 4 495 0 2 13 1,406
Sharing Productive Knowledge in Internally Financed R&D Contests 0 0 1 58 3 3 6 218
Simple Cost-Sharing Contracts 0 0 2 103 1 3 6 722
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 1 1 3 424
Supplying Information to Facilitate Price Discrimination 1 1 8 489 5 7 16 1,159
Targeting efforts to raise rivals' costs: Moving from “Whether” to “Whom” 0 0 0 16 3 5 9 93
Technological Change and the Boundaries of the Firm 0 0 0 102 3 5 7 363
The Bright Side of Supplier Encroachment 1 4 6 66 3 20 31 458
The Effects of Incentive Regulation in the Telecommunications Industry: A Survey 0 0 0 2 1 2 7 1,021
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 12 24 894
The Impact of Wholesale Price Caps on Forward Contracting 0 0 3 3 3 5 14 14
The Make-or-Buy Decision in the Presence of a Rival: Strategic Outsourcing to a Common Supplier 0 0 1 27 3 9 14 191
The State of Performance-Based Regulation in the U.S. Electric Utility Industry 0 0 0 80 1 3 4 222
The evolution of contracting: evidence from the US freight rail industry 0 1 2 2 4 5 8 8
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 11
The impact of public ownership in the lending sector 0 0 0 3 0 2 4 27
The impact of vertical integration on losses from collusion 0 0 1 3 4 6 11 25
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 3 4 410
Toward a Benchmark for Optimal Prudency Policy 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 110
Toward a Synthesis of Models of Regulatory Policy Design with Limited Information 0 1 1 227 0 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 0 5 7 88
Using markets to allocate pollution permits and other scarce resource rights under limited information 0 0 0 48 0 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 0 5 12 34
Welfare effects of limiting bank loans 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 8
Welfare-enhancing fraudulent behavior 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 3
When do auctions ensure the welfare-maximizing allocation of scarce inputs? 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 45
Total Journal Articles 16 35 150 13,286 230 533 1,059 45,491
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Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry 0 1 2 34 0 3 4 129
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fifth edition 0 0 0 0 5 21 140 2,170
Total Books 0 1 2 34 5 24 144 2,299


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 19 1,260 9 29 62 2,866
Total Chapters 1 5 19 1,260 9 29 62 2,866


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