Mainly because of data limitations, the unitary model (dating back to Becker, among others) has been the common-used theoretical framework in microanalysis of the household labor supply. Because of its simplicity, the household members are assumed to allocate time and consumption in consensus,...

Mainly because of data limitations, the unitary model (dating back to Becker, among others) has been the common-used theoretical framework in microanalysis of the household labor supply. Because of its simplicity, the household members are assumed to allocate time and consumption in consensus,...

This paper explores how costly price adjustment and strategic interaction may cause a leader-follower configuration to arise. While most imperfect models predict that price-setters will synchronize their moves, we show that leadership generates stable staggering.

In several interesting markets, demand is an increasing function of past sales because of learning, network externalities, or fashion. This paper examines entry into such markets.

This paper has three objectives: first to analyze the interaction between the basic internal contracts that shape the firm (labour and financial contracts). In particular we show how their temporal dimension are related. The linkage between firm's internal contracts and the project choice...

This paper provides a conceptual model that explains how organizational knowledge, capabilities, and products co-evolve over long time spans, and how this can result in competitive advantage through innovation and strategic linkage of products at a point in time and over time.

Apres avoir etutie les evolutions recentes en Argentine, qui illustrent bien les mecanismes importants, nous construisons un models theorique a deux periodes pour mettre en evidence les differents avantages et inconvenients de la fixite ou de la flexibilite, et determiner le degre optimal de...