Backward vertical integration by a dominant firm into an upstream competitive industry causes both input and output prices to rise. The dominant firm's cost advantage may or may not offset the negative effect to higher prices on social welfare. Whether it does depends on a simple indicator...

We develop a model of financially distressed firm to analyze the implications of a bank debt restructuring when the operational characteristics of the firm's project for the post-distress period are endogenously determined as part of the workout.

This paper develops a model of budgeting in hierarchical organizations. Each agent (manager) in the hierarchy receives a budget for a task; based on his own information, the agent assigns tasks and budgets to his subordinates, who, in turn, do the same for their subordinates and so forth. Each...

This paper examines the changes in costs of mental health and substance abuse services ina carve out program initiated in 1993 by the Group Insurance Commission (GIC) of the Commonwealth of of Massachusetts, and related those changes to initiatives in the contract the GIC agreed upon with the...