Clock rule changes were introduced in the 2006 season with the goal of reducing the average duration of the game; these changes were reversed in 2007. In addition, in 2007 the kickoff rule was changed to create more excitement and potentially more scoring. We examine what happened to actual and...

Students, in their roles as consumers, are usually more familiar with price competition than with quantity competition. Unfortunately, the Bertrand pricing model is usually given short shrift, relative to the Cournot model, both in the classroom and in textbooks. The richness of the Bertrand...

This paper evaluates partial acquisition strategies. The model allows for buying a share of a firm before the actual acquisition takes place. Holding a share in a competing firm before the acquisition of another firm, outsider-toehold, eliminates the insiders' dilemma, i.e. profitable mergers do...