uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition … private signals or more correlation among the costs parameters. In fact, for large values of noise or correlation supply …

A finite number of sellers (n) compete in schedules to supply an elastic demand. The costs of the sellers have … with more noise in the private signals or more correlation among the costs parameters. In fact, for large values of noise …

Exploiting the exogenous variation in childcare costs caused by a Swedish childcare reform, we are able to identify the … causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are … low, and the labor force participation of mothers is very high. Anticipation of a reduction in childcare costs increased …