This article tests the modell of Brander and lewis under ertrand and Cournot competition.

We examine the strategic behavior of leaders and followers in sequential duopoly experiments in which followers either perfectly observe the leaders' actions or else observe nothing. (...)

It is known that the Cournot model of quantity competition has to be inter-preted as the reduced form of a more complex situation, in which firms can commit tocapacity levels prior to setting prices. I show that the optimal strategic debt choice ofcapacity-price competitors depend on the type of...

We consider how the introduction of financial innovations may affect the intensity of productmarket competition. When rival firms issue debt, their product market behavior is driven by strategic con-siderations that are different from the ones in the case of pure equity financing. In particular,...

This paper shows that the stock price of the rating agency Moody’s reacts negatively to ratingactions that are perceived to indicate low rating quality. The reaction is economicallysignificant. The cumulative effect corresponds to a 20% loss in market capitalization. Thissuggests that market...

In recent years an increasingly common feature in international trade is cases where animporting country finds production practices in exporting countries unacceptable, and whereone seeks to change these practices by imposing trade restrictions. Examples includeunacceptable environmental...

In this study, we regard the oligopolistic-oligopsonistic markets within the framework of a“double auction” in which both buyers and sellers make bids. To this end, we introduce gameswhere declarations of supply and demand functions (which need not be true) are treated asstrategic variables...