We investigate the firms' and unions' incentives to engage in social responsibility activities in a unionized differentiated goods' duopoly market. The socially responsible attributes attached to products are considered as credence goods, with consumers forming expectations about their existence...

We consider a two-tier industry with an upstream monopolist trading, via interim observable linear tariff contracts, with two differentiated goods downstream of Stackelberg competitors. The upstream monopolist owns a symmetric minority share on both downstream customers, i.e., there is passive...

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...