The "aftermarkets" literature focuses on two important questions: (1) Do durable goods manufacturers that control their aftermarkets have an incentive to charge afetrmarket prices that exceed costs? (2) How significant (in a welfare sense) is the resulting distortion? Unlike previous work, this...

The behavior of nuclear plant operators is consistent with a model of dynamic cost minimization. Utilities compare the cost the cost of generating power from their own nuclear plants with the cost of obtaining "replacement power" form other sources and then optimaze the respective shares over time.