This paper analyses how sequential purchase of the different components assembled in some consumption good affects firm's pricing behaviour and compatibility decisions. With incompatible brands, consumers who wish to purchase some component of an alternative brand are forced to replace the...

This paper looks at the interaction between two firms based in different countries, each which faces the export v MNE choice concerning the servicing of the other's home market. Firms also have a choice over investment in a new technology which allows a corporate wide reduction in variable costs...

This paper examines the implications of habit forming hypothesis for welfare theory. both myopic and rational habit forming models are discussed. First, I analyse the main criteria proposed by myopic habit forming models for measuring individual and social welfare. I show that they are...

This paper analyses how sequential purchase of the different components assembled in some consumption good affects firm's pricing behaviour and compatibility decisions. With incompatible brands, consumers who wish to purchase some component of an alternative brand are forced to replace the...

This paper looks at the interaction between two firms based in different countries, each which faces the export v MNE choice concerning the servicing of the other's home market. Firms also have a choice over investment in a new technology which allows a corporate wide reduction in variable costs...

This paper examines the implications of habit forming hypothesis for welfare theory. both myopic and rational habit forming models are discussed. First, I analyse the main criteria proposed by myopic habit forming models for measuring individual and social welfare. I show that they are...