When a buyer negotiates in sequence with two potential sellers of a good, the outcome of each negotiation depends on all three players' bargaining powers. Assuming all parties are symmetrically informed, we find that the first seller's payoff is increasing in his own and the second seller's...

We consider a model of team production in which the principal observes only the team output, but agents can monitor one another (at a cost) and provide reports to the principal. We consider the problem faced by a principal who is prevented from penalizing an agent without evidence showing that...

We analyze a multiple-activity, principal-agent model in which the activities are naturally substitutable for the agent and complementary for the principal. A basic result is that the optimal compensation must cause the agent to view the activities as complements. This complementarity is...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Motivating Example -- 1.2 Collusion within Porter's Five Forces -- 1.3 Difficulties of Collusion -- 1.4 Environments Requiring Explicit Collusion -- 1.5 Lingering Price Effects of Explicit Collusion -- 1.6 Price Formation Process --...