The formulation of the problem of justice among generations as the problem of finding an ordering of infinite utility streams is examined within the ‘social welfare functional’ approach to social choice. This formulation usually presumes a double reduction not only the classical...

In applying the common agency framework to the context of an oligopolistic industry, we want to go beyond the classical dichotomy between Cournot and Bertrand competition. We define two games, the oligopolistic game and the corresponding concept of oligopolistic equilibrium, and an associated...

We develop an overlapping generations model, where firms (as consumers) have a two-period life, investing in R&D during the first period and competing in the product market in the second period. The number of firms is endogenously determined and the set of successful firms by a Bernoullian...

The cyclical behavior of wages and prices was a central topic in trade cycle analysis on the eve of the Second World War. Keynes and Harrod independently referred in the same year to the supposed countercyclicality of real wages, a feature that was contested soon after, on empirical grounds, by...

We propose a comprehensive concept of oligopolistic equilibrium, allowing for a parametrized continuum of competition regimes, with each firm setting simultaneously both its price and its quantity and facing two constraints: one relative to its share ofthe market, the other relative to the size...