In this paper we extend the collusion framework to allow for heterogeneity among firms, investment, entry and exit. The focus is on a model with symmetric information in which it is hard to sustain collusion when either; one of the firms does not keep up with the advances of its competitors...

We study the effects of local status, where workers compare their wage to the wage of other workers within the same firm. We assume a competitive labor market with unobservable effort, where firms condition wages on output as incentive for effort. If workers who care about status are also more...

While the paper examined the effect of different tax regimes on the Israeli automobile market, the main contribution of this paper is the methodology it employs. As demonstrated, owr framework provides a methodology for examining the effects of changes in tax regimes in differential product...

This paper propose an experimental approach to studying different aspects of discrimination. Experiment participants played various games with opponents of distinct ethnic affiliation. When strategic choices depend upon this ethnic affiliation, we gain direct evidence of ethnic discrimination.

This note considers a two-sided multi-issue bargaining problem in which players that belong to the same "side" may have conflicting priorities regarding the different negotiated issues. The note examines different bilateral bargaining procedures and shows the different equilibrium settlement...