We report econometric results concerning the diffusion of detachable chairlifts in the United States that provide the first empirical evidence that the adoption of a technological innovation by a firm decreases the likelihood that a local competitor will also adopt it. We model the effect that...

This article argues that the use of membership fees at shared facilities, such as private golf courses, is not per se evidence of inefficient pricing as implied by the club theory literature on variable usage. The author reconciles the inconsistency between the predictions of existing models and...