We study an asymmetric information model in which two firms are active on a market where buyers only observe the average quality supplied. Quantities and cost structures are exogenously given and firms compete in quality. Before choosing their qualities, they bargain over a perfectly enforcable...

Two firms produce different qualities at possibly different, constant marginal costs. They compete in quantities on a market where buyers only observe the average quality supplied. The model is a generalization of the standard Cournot duopoly, which corresponds to the special case where the two...

The timing option embedded in a futures contract allows the short position to decide when to deliver the underlying asset during the last month of the contract period. <p> In this paper we derive, within a very general incomplete market framework, an explicit model independent formula for the...</p>