In this paper we introduce and analyze a financial instrument, termed industry-average performance bonds (IAPB), that we show offers two important advantages for labor-managed firms (LMF): reduced underinvestment, and diminished quot;Illyrianquot; supply effects. These instruments commit the LMF...

It is well known that economies of scale that are external to the individual decision makers can lead to self-fulfilling prophecies and the multiplicity or even indeterminacy of equilibrium. We argue that the importance of this source of multiplicity and indeterminacy is overstated in...