This note reports part of a larger study of "petty corruption" by government bureaucrats in the process of approving new business projects. Each bureaucrat may demand a bribe as a condition of approval. Entrepreneurs use the services of an intermediary who, for a fee, undertakes to obtain all of...

We characterize the optimal dynamic price policy of a monopolist who faces quot;viscousquot;demand for its services. Demand is viscous if it adjusts relatively slowly to price changes.We show that with the optimal policy the monopolist stops short of achieving 100% marketpenetration, even when...

In many markets, demand adjusts slowly to changes inprices, i.e., demand is quot;viscous.quot; For such a market, the time path of a firm'sprices acquires added significance, compared with the case of instantaneousdemand response. In this paper I explore some problems in strategic dynamicpricing...

We model the global warming process as a dynamic commons game in which the players are countries, their actions at each date produceemissions of greenhouse gases, and the state variable is the current stock of greenhouse gases. The theoretical analysis is complemented by a calibration exercise....