Traditional economic models separate firms' production decisions from equilibrium in stock markets. In this paper, we develop an integrated model of production in the presence of capital asset market equilibrium. Our theory indicates that, in a stochastic environment, production and financial...

Defining "fair return" when profits are random has been a central problem in the theory of regulation. In this paper, we develop a simple but general concept of fair return based on an equilibrium model of production under uncertainty. We propose regulatory behavior which will induce firms to...

While some firms, such as airlines, may have both the informational and legal capabilities for identifying and segmenting customers into different markets, most firms do not. When only the distribution characteristics of consumers is known, we characterize the situation as one of imperfect...

In his analysis of the behavior of a firm subject to stochastic regulatory review in an earlier issue of this Journal, Klevorick uses some "well-known results" concerning the strict concavity of composite functions to prove the unique existence of the firm's optimal research and investment...