Fighting collusion has long been a challenge in organizations, whilst favoritism in organizations has long been attacked as one of the most important sources of workplace conflicts. This paper links the phenomena of collusion and favoritism together which seem to be irrelevant. We show that...

We study collusion within groups in noncooperative games. The primitives are the preferences of the players, their assignment to nonoverlapping groups, and the goals of the groups. Our notion of collusion is that a group coordinates the play of its members among different incentive compatible...

This paper analyzes optimal contracts in a linear hidden-action model with normally distributed returns possessing two moments that are governed jointly by two agents, who can observe each others' effort levels and draft enforceable side-contracts on chosen effort levels and realized returns....

The paper shows that collusion between the CEO of a firm and outside expert generates a conflict between ex-ante provision of effort and ex-post disclosures of bad news if the alliance tends to hide early warning signals that call for restructuring of firm's assets. This tension is resolved by a...

Asymmetries in cross-price elasticities have been demonstrated by several empirical studies. In this paper we study from a theoretical stance how introducing asymmetry in the substitution effects influences the sustainability of collusion. We characterize the equilibrium of a linear Cournot...

When the information used by a principal to monitor an agent is private, and thus non-verifiable by a third party, the principal has a credibility issue with the agent. The agent should be concerned that the principal could misrepresent the information in order to collect a monetary penalty from...

Information Technology has allowed vertically related firms to share sales forecasts, production schedules, inventory, etc. This fact motivated many studies on how the retailer’s superior knowledge of market conditions affects pricing and competition within different vertical restraints. But...

This paper characterizes the optimal contract when a principal has unverifiable subjective information that is correlated with an agent's private information. We find that the principal's subjective information alleviates the initial information asymmetry only if the correlation is sufficiently...

In many cases, the cost of an agent acquiring information is lower than that for the principal. However, because of a private benefit difference between the principal's and agent's preferences, the principal often cannot fully utilize the agent's advantage. This paper considers the cost of...

When partnerships come to an end, partners must find a way to efficiently reallocate the commonly owned assets to those who value them the most. This requires that the aforementioned members possess enough financial resources to buy out the others’ shares. I investigate ex post efficient...