We examine price competition with homogeneous products in the presenceof general common ownership arrangements allowing for different corporate control structures. We show that equilibria with positive profits exist (including themonopoly outcome) when the manager places the same weight on the...

We study how inflated credit ratings affect investment decisions in bond markets using experimental coordination games. Theoretical models that feature a feedback effect between capital markets and the real economy suggest that inflated ratings can have both positive and negative real effects....

In the context of supply function competition with private information, we test in the laboratory whether, as predicted in Bayesian equilibrium, costs that are positively correlated lead to steeper supply functions and less competitive outcomes than do uncorrelated costs. We find that the...

This paper analyses the equilibrium and welfare properties of an economy characterized by uncertainty and payoff externalities using a general model that nests several applications. Agents receive a private signal and an endogenous public signal, which is a noisy aggregate of individual actions...

In the context of supply function competition with private information, we test in the laboratory whether — as predicted in Bayesian equilibrium — costs that are positively correlated lead to steeper supply functions and less competitive outcomes than do uncorrelated costs. We find that the...

This paper analyses the equilibrium and welfare properties of an economy characterised by uncertainty and payoff externalities using a general model that nests several applications. Agents receive a private signal and an endogenous public signal, which is a noisy aggregate of individual actions...

We examine the competition between a transparent exchange organized as a limit order book and an opaque dark pool in the presence of asymmetric information. We show that the coexistence of a dark pool with an exchange not only enlarges traders' strategy set but may also induce trading venue...

In a laboratory experiment with supply function competition and private information about correlated costs we study whether cost interdependence leads to greater market power in relation to when costs are uncorrelated in the ways predicted by Bayesian supply function equilibrium. We find that...