price competition and lead to lower profits. The strength of these potentially offsetting effects depends on the …

We analyze an oligopolistic competition with differentiated products and qualities. The quality of a product is not …-signaling competition. There are two regimes for separating equilibrium in our model depending on the parameters. Our analysis reveals that …, in one of the separating regimes, price signaling leads to intense price competition between the firms under which not …

to more disclosure but depends on the level of competition in the market. Conversely, increasing competition does not …

of price competition. When consumers fall short of forming rational expectation after non-disclosure, firms may partially …

the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method. The study revealed that three major categories of manufacturing costs affect the … overall productivity of manufacturing companies; viz, raw materials, labour and overhead costs. This study established that … the ability or inability of manufacturing companies to properly control and minimize these costs has a direct bearing on …

-in-place are reduced. We find that changes in SG&A costs separate between the two cost drivers, and that the explanatory power of … of the single-driver cost behavior model. Similar insights are obtained when we replace SG&A costs with employee … headcount or employee costs as the cost measure of interest. In all cases, we find that the cost inertia term is significantly …

We investigate the impact of consumer myopia on competition and firm behavior. In our model, firms repeatedly sell a …