Traditional sourcing arrangements for after-sales support of capital-intensive products such as airplanes, weapons systems, and manufacturing equipment have centered around physical assets such as spare parts, which were the unit of financial transactions. In recent years, we have witnessed the...

We investigate gender differences in lying behavior when the opportunity to tell lies is repeated. In specific, we distinguish the situations in which such an opportunity can be planned versus when it comes as a surprise. We utilize data from an existing published research and show that when the...

We investigate private and social incentives for standardization to ensure market-wide system compatibility in a two-dimensional spatial competition model. We develop a new methodology to analyze competition on a torus and show that there is a fundamental conflict of interest between consumers...