This paper considers lifetime employment contracts as a strategic commitment and discusses the respective equilibrium outcomes of the two cases of a price-setting game with substitute goods and a price-setting game with complementary goods. As a result, it is shown that in each case, the...

This paper extends the retroactive most-favoured-customer pricing policy examined by Cooper (1986). He showed that the policy enabled both firms in a duopoly to offer higher prices and to enjoy higher profits. This paper introduces a variable into the most-favoured-customer pricing policy. Then,...

This paper considers a wage-rise-contract between a firm and its employees as the firm's strategy, and suggests a wage-rise-contract policy. The policy is a promise by the firm that it will announce a certain output level and a wage premium rate, and if it actually produces more than the...

This paper examines a subgame perfect equilibrium when one of two duopolists executes a lifetime-employment-contract policy, which is a strategic commitment that generates kinks in the reaction curve, by using a two-stage quantity-setting model. The purpose of the paper is to show concretely in...

This eBook presents recent case studies on firms and their strategy employed in specific scenarios and industries. Readers will find, in this volume, an analysis of oligopolistic industries done by using various economic models. These models attempt to explain changes to the competitive...

Intro -- 1-Title.pdf -- Firm's TOC -- 3-Preface -- 4-List of Contributors -- Part-1 -- 5-Chapter 1 -- 6-Chapter 2 -- 7-Chapter 3 -- Part-2 -- 8-Chapter 4 -- 9-Chapter 5 -- 10-Chapter 6 -- 11-Chapter 7 -- 12-Chapter 8 -- 13-Chapter 9 -- Part-3 -- 14-Chapter 10 -- 15-Chapter 11 -- 16-Chapter 12 --...

This paper investigates a price-setting mixed model involving a private firm and a public firm to reassess the welfare effect of partial privatization. First, the government chooses the level of privatization to maximize social welfare. Second, observing the level of privatization, the firms...

This paper examines an international mixed model in which a domestic state-owned welfare-maximizing public firm competes against a foreign labor-managed income-per-worker-maximizing private firm. In the first stage, each firm independently decides whether or not to make a commitment to capacity....