This paper discusses the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) and guidelines for its competitive reform.

Securing sales to a large bayer can be pivotal to a supplier' s decision to produce. Conventional wisdom holds that being pivotal improves a bayer's bargaining position. This paper finds otherwise. In a model in which a supplier bargains bilaterally with multiple buyers, becoming pivotal through...

Our results seem to provide substantial evidence that joint operating agreement's (JOA) act as constrained rather than unconstrained monopolists in setting ad rates and circulation levels. The constraint of having to produce two dailies binds tightly enough to yield JOA CPM's that are much...

This paper investigates the properties of four demand systems that have been used to predict the effects of differentiated products mergers: the Almost Ideal demand System (AIDS), logit, linear, and log-linear (constant elasticity).

Trade barriers are failing and U.S. producers are competing in increasingly open international markets. Further, data reveal considerable heterogeneity across industries in the intertemporal path of import-penetration. Against this backdrop, we focus on an issue that is increasingly important...