Oligopolistic competition is analyzed in a complete information multi-principal common agency framework, where principals are firms supplying differentiated goods and the agent is a representative consumer. We first propose a canonical formulation of common agency games, and a parameterization...

We consider the problem of bargaining over the disclosure of interim research knowledge, between two participants in a R&D race or contest, for an ultimate, patentable invention. Licensing fee schedules, as functions of the "amount of knowledge" disclosed by the leading to the lagging agent, are...

In this note we compare, at given costs, the welfare effects of two policies aiming at reducing unvoluntary unemployment: unemployment benefits allocated to unemployed workers alld employment subsidies allocated to firms.