Richard Romano
Biographic Data
| ID | 5729286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Romano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Romano |
| SIGNATURE | ROMANO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4961-4559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Profiling in Bargaining Over College Tuition
Profiling in college admissions arises when applicant attributes are given weight because they are correlated with unobservable student characteristics that the college values. The article models the admission process of a single college as a bargaining game between the college and a potential student with sequential moves and asymmetric information. We test the empirical implications of this model using a unique data set from a private college i…
Ends against the middle: Determining public service provision when there are private alternatives
Public Provision of Private Goods
Government may provide a good that can, if legally permitted, be supplemented by private purchases. Policy is determined by majority rule. Under standard assumptions on preferences, a majority voting equilibrium exists. A regime of positive government provision with no restriction on private supplements is shown to be majority preferred to a regime of either only market provision or only government provision. Combined public and private expenditu…
A Note on Vertical Integration: Price Discrimination and Successive Monopoly
An upstream monopolist that services multiple downstream monopolists has a dual incentive to integra te vertically with any of them. Through integration, the upstream mon opolist can practice implicit price discrimination and also resolve t he pricing inefficiency associated with successive monopoly. The down stream industries can be divided into a set for which integration wit h the upstream monopolist leads to a Pareto improvement and the compl…
Public Provision of Private Goods
Government may provide a good that can, if legally permitted, be supplemented by private purchases. Policy is determined by majority rule. Under standard assumptions on preferences, a majority voting equilibrium exists. A regime of positive government provision with no restriction on private supplements is shown to be majority preferred to a regime of either only market provision or only government provision. Combined public and private expenditu…
A Note on Vertical Integration: Price Discrimination and Successive Monopoly
An upstream monopolist that services multiple downstream monopolists has a dual incentive to integra te vertically with any of them. Through integration, the upstream mon opolist can practice implicit price discrimination and also resolve t he pricing inefficiency associated with successive monopoly. The down stream industries can be divided into a set for which integration wit h the upstream monopolist leads to a Pareto improvement and the compl…
Ends against the middle: Determining public service provision when there are private alternatives
Public Provision of Private Goods
Government may provide a good that can, if legally permitted, be supplemented by private purchases. Policy is determined by majority rule. Under standard assumptions on preferences, a majority voting equilibrium exists. A regime of positive government provision with no restriction on private supplements is shown to be majority preferred to a regime of either only market provision or only government provision. Combined public and private expenditu…
Profiling in Bargaining Over College Tuition
Profiling in college admissions arises when applicant attributes are given weight because they are correlated with unobservable student characteristics that the college values. The article models the admission process of a single college as a bargaining game between the college and a potential student with sequential moves and asymmetric information. We test the empirical implications of this model using a unique data set from a private college i…
Economics (4 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (2 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 works) · Majority rule (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public economics (2 works) · Public good (2 works) · Voting (2 works)