This study investigates the strategic disclosure of a downstream firm’s information regarding cost-reducing investment … convey an aggressive investment (i.e., lower marginal costs) to a rival downstream firm when the products are sufficiently … differentiated. Moreover, we show that the downstream firm may disclose its information and pursue its investment at a minimum level …

We analyse the effects of investment decisions and firms internal organisation on the efficiency and stability of …

(cooperation) solutions, in a model of investment timing allowing for externalities in both flow profits and investment costs. For … two ex-ante symmetric firms, either preemption or attrition occur depending on the size of the investment externality …. Optimal cooperation involves either monopoly or duopoly investment, the latter being either symmetric or asymmetric. Finally …

capital. The firm is financially constrained and there are implementation lags in investment. Our model predicts that product … related to investment. Estimating price and investment equations on panel data for Swedish manufacturing plants we find … results which are qualitatively in line with these predictions, though the relation between investment and prices is stronger …

suppliers' profits. In the specific setting of this paper, I show that when the competition is perfect, an investment in … transmission capacity between zones (inter Transmission System Operator (TSO) investment) and an investment in production capacity … generate the same equilibrium outcome allocations. In contrast, when the competition is imperfect, an inter TSO investment and …

We examine the interplay of endogenous vertical integration and costreducing downstream investment in successive …, we establish the following main results: First, vertical integration increases own investment and decreases competitor … investment (intimidation effect). Second, asymmetric equilibria typically involve integrated firms that invest more into …