We investigate the effects of asymmetric per-unit pollution tax rates in two countries on a firm's choice of location for its manufacturing facilities, local and global environmental damage, and social welfare. The novelty of our approach is that we consider a manufacturer which offers products...

This paper examines the interdependence between a firm's moral hazard problem and its roles as a buyer of inputs and seller of final products. We demonstrate that to maximize profit a firm needs to adapt incentive contracts to variations in the competitive environment of the supplier market....

We introduce a mixed quantity-setting duopoly with a socially concerned firm and a profit-maximizing firm to derive a firms' optimal combination of the organization's type, the structure of managerial compensation and its manager's type. Both firms delegate the quantity choice to managers who...

We study how managerial bargaining power affects outcomes and payoffs in a Hotelling-type duopoly framework with restricted and unrestricted locations. We show that bargaining power only affects the distribution of the surplus between owners and managers, but does not affect the locations,...

We show that Miller and Pazgal's (2001) model of strategic delegation, in which managerial incentives are based upon relative performance, is affected by a non-existence problem which has impact on the price equilibrium. The undercutting incentives generating this result are indeed similar to...

We identify a mistake in the specification of the demand system used in the strategic delegation model based on market shares by Jansen et al. (2007), whereby the price remains above marginal cost when goods are homogeneous. After amending this aspect, we perform a profit comparison with the...

We study how inter-firm social comparison can alter the choice of two competing manufacturers between vertical integration and vertical separation if retailers are status-concerned. Status is determined by the difference in retailers’ market shares. The novelty of our approach is that in line...