In this theoretical paper, I examine bargaining over the financial terms of a contract between an entrepreneur willing to realize a project and a supportive financier such as a venture capitalist. I study the impact of the endogenous opportunity to resort to non-supportive financiers such as...

This paper studies investments in new markets where more than two (anticipated) identical competitors are present. In case of three firms an accordion effect is detected: an exogenous demand shock results in a change of the wedge between investment thresholds of the first and second investor...