This paper deals with a privatized firm facing potential market entry. The firm has inherited excess capacity from its public past. The players have asymmetric costs. Only the entrant must install new capacity, which incurs positive capacity installation costs. The paper considers the subgame...

The comment refers to a paper by Grout published in the ECONOMIC JOURNAL (1988). Grout's paper is concerned with the impact of employee shares on the net income of the employees. Analysing a specific game he concludes that "workers in aggregate do not gain from share ownership". This conclusion...