Teams, in both firms and in sports, jointly produce a product. While a fixed task is assigned to each member of a team, the individual team productivity of a worker or player is difficult to conceptualize. This is particularly true, if this concept is aimed to be operable on observable data. In...

We explore the Alchian–Allen effect–that is, the effect of an absolutely equal increase in the price of two goods on their demand ratio–for conditional (viz. short-run) and unconditional (viz. long-run) demand functions. We show that the Alchian–Allen effect for unconditional demand...