A special feature of UK executive pay is the heavy reliance on performance conditions for executive share options. Using data compiled from 2002-2003 Remuneration Committee reports of 130 of Britain's largest companies as well as linked data on analyst earnings forecasts and realised earnings,...

In this paper we show that when a monopolist incurs certain costs for servicing or maintaining its customer-base, price markups may decrease with high demand mdash; i.e. markups are countercylical. Indeed, for a given market share when demand booms each customer on average will purchase more...

In this paper we show that when a monopolist incurs certain costs for servicing or maintaining its customer-base, price markups may decrease with high demand — i.e. markups are countercylical. Indeed, for a given market share when demand booms each customer on average will purchase more output...

This paper considers an extension of the standard cobweb model in a market with local externalities. In contrast with the standard cobweb model, firms must forecast both prices and local quantities; we develop new constructive stability and existence conditions for equilibria with positive...