We employ a two-stage, n-firm differentiated products framework to examine the effect of competition for investors' capital, uncertainty, and barriers to entry on private equity fundraising. In the first stage, firms simultaneously decide whether or not they will raise capital. Participating...

Problem definition: Energy efficiency programs and demand response programs, two popular approaches to energy demand management, are traditionally designed and evaluated independently. Breaking with tradition, we study the interactions between energy efficiency upgrades and participation in...

When a retailer holds no private information, a powerful supplier can use several contract types to extract for herself the first-best channel profit, leaving the retailer nothing but his reservation profit. In the case where the retailer holds private information on the probability distribution...