We examine incentives of bottleneck facility holders to manipulate access charge accounting in free entry downstream markets. We consider the situation wherein one firm holds an upstream bottleneck facility and new entrants use it at the regulated price (access fee) to provide final products. The bottleneck facility holder affects the regulated input price. We investigate how vertical separatio...

The application of AI techniques for stock price prediction leads to voluminous growth of wealth of investors with the advent of technology. Several prediction and estimations are coming up for almost all sectors of the market. Particularly any kind of stock price prediction is not at all possible without excessive data manipulation which can be done effectively only thru data mining. The syste...

the purpuse of this study was to examine the regulation needs of iranian capital market. the regulation needs was investigated in three areas: 1- information disclosure 2- financial institutions and 3- supervision and market confidence. the results showed that, information disclosure was not adequate in iran, especially in the primary market, where companies issue now securities to the public, ...

Prediction markets are increasingly being considered as methods for gathering, summarizing and aggregating diffuse information by governments and businesses alike. Critics worry that these markets are susceptible to price manipulation by agents who wish to distort decision making. We study the effect of manipulators on an experimental market, and find that manipulators are unable to distort pri...

It has been shown in prior research that cost effectiveness in the competitive emissions permit market could be affected by tacit collusion or price manipulation when the corresponding polluting product market is oligopolistic. We analyze these cross market links using a Stackelberg model to show that under reasonable assumptions, there are no incentives to collude for lobbying prices up. Howev...