Most companies prefer to use absorption costing rule rather than marginal cost pricing. This article is aimed at defining the absorption costing rule as deriving from a principal-agent formulation of two tier organizations : (i) the upstream unit fixes the production capacity and uses it as a...

The impact of private benefits extraction on the values of oligopolistic firms is analyzed. Private benefits are assumed to generate costs which are passed through the organizational structure and create price distortion in the downstream product market. We prove that this may affect the profit...

[ger] Investition, Leistungsfähigkeit und Koordination im Unternehmen, . von Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, Philippe Michel, Jacques Thépot.. . Mit dem Investitionsmodell eines Unternehmens lassen sich zwei Arten von Verhaltensweisen miteinander vergleichen: die naive und die rationale...

Competitive aggressiveness is analyzed in a simple spatial oligopolistic competition model, where each one of two firms supplies two connected market segments, one captive the other contested. To begin with, firms are simply assumed to maximize profit subject to two constraints, one related to...

We develop a game-theoretic model of doping which focuses on the economic aspects of competitive sports. According to the model, incentives for athletes to use doping increase when (i) the efficiency of the drug test system is low, (ii) the number of competitions during one season is high, (iii)...

Le but de cette communication est de proposer deux facteurs expliquant la pérennité de l’Église catholique en tant qu’organisation. Du côté de la demande, nous défendons l’idée selon laquelle le catholicisme occupe un positionnement central dans l’espace des attentes des croyants....

This paper explores the idea to regulate retailing industry through a tax on the store parking size. In Western economies, retailers use common resources (land use, road networks) contributing to the store accessibility that they do not pay for. This kind of free riding gives gross merchandisers...

[eng] Bertrand and Cournot may exist. . This article presents a general approach establishing the coexistence of Bertrand and Cournot oligopolists. It is based on a two-stage game model where the firms choose the priees at the first stage and the aggregate consumer decides the quantities at the...