In most cases, the premature announcement of a future product cannot be anti-competitive. When there are network effects, however, firms may have incentives to strategically prenannounce products; such preannouncements are often referred to as "vaporware." Anticompetitive vaporware allegations...

This paper argues that when organizations are imperfect in the sense that members may make mistakes and messages may be distorted, then the inner structure of the organization should be explicitly modeled. This paper proposes a framework for studying games between imperfect organizations.

The paper questions the methodology of "economics and psychology". It focuses on the case of hyperbolic discounting. Using some experimental results, I argue that the same sort of evidence which rejects the standard constant discount utility functions can just as easily reject hyperbolic...