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John Vickers
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 124
Citations - 13772
John Vickers is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Competition (economics) & Price discrimination. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 122 publications receiving 13194 citations. Previous affiliations of John Vickers include Bank of England & John Radcliffe Hospital.
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Privatization: An Economic Analysis
John Vickers,George Yarrow +1 more
TL;DR: The process of selling assests and enterprises to the private sector raises questions about natural monopolies, the efficiency and equity of state-owned versus privately owned enterprises, and industrial policy as mentioned in this paper.
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Competition, Imitation and Growth with Step-by-Step Innovation
TL;DR: In contrast to earlier Schumpeterian models in which innovations are always made by outsider firms who earn no rents if they fail to innovate and become monopolies if they do innovate, the authors find that the usual Schumpetersian effect of more intense product market competition is almost always outweighed by the increased incentive for firms to innovate in order to escape competition, so that PMC has a positive effect on growth.
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Delegation and the theory of the firm
TL;DR: In this paper, Schelling showed that if control of my decisions is in the hands of an agent whose preferences are different from my own, I may nevertheless prefer the results to those that would come about if I took my own decisions.
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Regulatory Reform: Economic Analysis and British Experience
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe an analytical framework for studying the main issues in regulatory reform, and then apply the analysis to the British experience in four utility industries - telecommunications, gas, electricity, and water supply.
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Economic Perspectives on Privatization
John Vickers,George Yarrow +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role of privatization in financing public debts and deficits in three countries: Britain, Chile, and Poland, and examine the distributional and political implications of privatization.