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What factors determine the number of trading partners?

Matsushima, Noriaki; Shinohara, Ryusuke - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 106 (2014), pp. 428-441

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Strategic Capacity Investments and Competition for Supply Contracts

Li, Ying; Gupta, Sudheer - 2011

cost structures depend upon the buyer's bargaining power (opportunity cost). However, the winning supplier's investments … monopolist buyer. Such investments reduce the suppliers' variable costs of serving the buyer's demand. We show that an auction … mechanism does not always benefit the payment-minimizing buyer, the supply chain, or society. We identify scenarios where the …

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Strategic Mismatches in Competing Teams

Kräkel, Matthias - 1999

This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be rational when players realize a competitive advantage (e.g. harming other competitors). In addition, the...

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Strategic mismatches in competing teams

Kräkel, Matthias - 1999

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Project Characteristics, Incentives and Team Production

Fu, Richard - 2015

We develop a model to show how agency conflicts, free rider effects and monitoring costs interact to affect optimal team size and workers' incentive contracts. Team size increases with project risk, decreases with profitability, and decreases with monitoring costs as a proportion of output. Our...

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Strategic Investment in Protection in Networked Systems

Leduc, Matthew V. - 2017

We study the incentives that agents have to invest in costly protection against cascading failures in networked systems. Applications include vaccination, computer security and airport security. Agents are connected through a network and can fail either intrinsically or as a result of the...

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The Effect of Salvage Market on Strategic Technology Choice and Capacity Investment Decision of Firm Under Demand Uncertainty

Kashefi, Mohammad Ali - 2012

This paper examines the effect of salvage market on strategic technology choice and capacity investment decision of two … of capacity investment: flexible firm makes decision about general and specific components' capacity and inflexible firm …

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Optimal R&D Investment Strategies with Quantity Competition Under the Threat of Superior Entry

Plasmans, Joseph E. J.; Lukach, Ruslan; Kort, Peter M. - 2021

This paper studies R&D investment decisions of a firm facing the threat of new technology entry and subject to …

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Predatory Pricing and Information Aggregation in Markets with a Common Value

Arieli, Itai - 2016

We study a duopoly where the two price setting firms have symmetric information. The firms produce substitute goods with a state dependent common value. The information that is available to both firms about the unknown state of nature is also available to the consumers, who also have access to...

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Green Eggs and Ham : The CISG, Path Dependence, and the Behavioural Economics of Lawyers’ Choices of Law in International Sales Contracts

Spagnolo, Lisa - 2022

Why do lawyers in some jurisdictions continue to ‘automatically’ exclude the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) in their choices of law for international sales contracts? Why do lawyers in other jurisdictions approach the decision very differently? Why...

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