This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes an attempt at bringing...

We investigated the endogenous choice of roles by managerial firms in the presence of unilateral externality. The choice over timing can be taken either by managers or by owners. It is shown that (i) the choice of the timing by managers entails the same profit that owners would have achieved by...

The law and economics literature on the tragedy of the anticommons suggests that producers of complementary goods should integrate themselves. Recent decisions by the antitrust authorities seem to indicate that there is tradeoff between the “tragedy” and the lack of competition which might...

We study competitive interactions between Intel and Microsoft, two producers of complementary products. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how the different components work together. This, in turn, depends on the firms' investments in complementary...

Italian Abstract: Note sui modelli classici di strategie di differenziazione orizzontale del prodotto con costi di trasporto lineari Hotelling (1929) e quadratici D'Aspremont, Gabsewicz e Thisse (1979). Vengono studiati i risultati dovuti ad imprese con funzioni di costo diverse. Segue una...

Italian Abstract: Vengono esposti i classici risultati dei modelli di oligopolio con beni differenziati sia sostituti che complementari a mosse simultanee, sequenziali e colllusive, con variabile strategica quantità o prezzo. L'utilizzo di funzioni lineari permette di calcolare, disegnare e...

This paper studies choice of organizational structure (vertical separation or vertical integration) under demand uncertainty with incomplete information. In order to highlight our assertions, a price duopolistic competition model with stochastic demand is considered. The stochastic demand, once...

Bidders in procurement auctions often face avoidable fixed costs. This can make bidding decisions complex and risky, and market outcomes volatile. If bidders deviate from risk neutral best responses, either due to faulty optimization or risk attitudes, then equilibrium predictions can perform...

This paper focuses on competition between an incumbent and an entrant when only the entrant's quality is unknown to (some) consumers. The incumbent may or may not know the entrant's quality. The model reveals a separating equilibrium where the entrant's high price signals its high quality when...

It is often argued that in competitive markets a firm expands its product line to benefit at the expense of its competitor: more products enable a firm to attract higher demand and/or charge higher prices to earn more profits. We show that these conclusions may be reversed, even without market...