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Firms commonly manufacture multiple products using multiple complementary inputs. The multi-input-multi-product environment generates interactions among products yielding the following results for the firm's sourcing strategies: (i) A multi-input-multi-product firm might optimally deviate from...
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In this paper we study the emergence of firm asymmetry as an equilibrium outcome. We consider differentiated Cournot and Bertrand duopolies where firms endogenously select their organizational governance and their timing strategy for the market stage. It is shown that for both market structures...
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The paper addresses the question how production capacities on an established market affect the innovativeness of firms. We analyze the strategic interactions in an oligopoly setting where firms offer an established product and have the option to offer an additional new product. We show that the...
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In this paper we are analyzing a mixed quantity-setting duopoly consisting of a socially concerned firm and a profit maximizing firm. The socially concerned firm considers one group of stakeholders in its objective function and maximizes its profit plus a share of consumer surplus. Both firms...
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We consider a repeated interaction between a manufacturing firm and a subcontractor. The realtionship between the two parties is characterized 1) by moral hazard, 2) by the fact that they do not have perfect knowledge about the base cost level of the project carried out by a subcontractor (the...
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According to the classical result on complementary monopolies, a single-product firm unambiguously prefers purchasing complementary inputs from an integrated monopolistic supplier rather than from different non-integrated monopolistic suppliers. In this note, we account for the fact that firms...
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Nonprofit organizations have been recently mandated to disclose the details of their executives' compensation packages. Contract information is now accessible not only to current and prospective donors, but also to rival nonprofit organizations competing for donations in the fundraising market....
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