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We study a tractable two-dimensional model of price discrimination. Consumers combine a rigid with a more flexible choice, such as choosing the location of a house and its quality or size. We show that the optimal pricing scheme involves no bundling if consumer types are affiliated. Conversely,...
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colleagues get more income net of production costs. Screening workers with equal productivity but different fairness concerns is … shown to be impossible if both types are to be employed, thereby rendering the optimal employment contracts discontinuous in … the fraction of fair-minded workers. As a result, fairness might influence the employment contracts of all workers …
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Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this … effect of contracts on bargaining threatpoints. We compare situations in which an initial contract is renegotiated to …
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The paper analyzes the choice of organizational structure as solution to the trade-off between controlling behavior based on authority rights and minimizing costs for implementing high efforts. The analysis includes the owner of a firm, a top manager and two division heads. If it is more...
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We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market framework. The platform provider faces uncertainty about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. It maximizes the expected present value of its profit stream in a continuous-time...
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upstream supplier sequentially offers supply contracts to two symmetric downstream firms. We find that equilibrium contracts …
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This paper studies the innovation dynamics of an oligopolistic industry. The firms compete not only in the output market but also by engaging in productivity enhancing innovations to reduce labor costs. Rent sharing may generate productivity dependent wage differentials. Productivity growth...
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relocate to other countries. We analyze a dynamic game where a regulator offers contracts to avert relocation of a firm in each … of two periods. The firm can undertake a location-specific investment (e.g., in abatement capital). Contracts can be …
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Litigation seems to be a Pareto-ineffcient outcome of pretrial bargaining; however, this paper shows that litigation can be the outcome of rational behavior by a litigant and her attorney. If the attorney has more information than his client concerning the characteristics of the lawsuit, the...
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