In a declining industry, shrinking demand creates pressure for capacity to be reduced. Who exits first? There is a unique perfect equilibrium for firms with asymmetric market shares and identical unit costs in which survivability is inversely related to size: the largest firm can profitably...

This paper looks at competitive interactions between Airbus and Boeing in very large aircraft. It concludes that Boeing attempted to preempt Airbus in introducing a new product in this space but failed to do so because of the incredibility, given the assumption of value maximization, of...