Since the US Dealer Day in Court Legislation of 1956, many states have altered the nature of written contracts between automobile manufacturers and their dealers. In particular, restrictions have been placed on the manufacturers' rights to add new dealers to market areas of existing dealers and...

Efficient contracts set incentives through the assignment of rights and profit shares. Although efficient contracts have been used to explain the nature of the firm, the use of contractual rights in specific business contracts is relatively unexplored. The authors analyze contractual rights in...

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This article examines requirements tying of a competitively supplied good to a monopolized good. It expands the set of market conditions in which this instrument is known to be profitable. With heterogeneous, privately informed buyers, a firm can profit by tying two goods even when demands for...

This paper derives firm boundaries as the outcome of an equilibrium coordination mechanism. The analysis is premised on the notion that efficient production and distribution are achieved through a mechanism that coordinates three basic activities: i) input acquisition, ii) production, iii)...