This paper develops a model of strategic outsourcing. With trade liberalization in the intermediate-product market, a domestic firm may choose to purchase a key intermediate good from a more efficient foreign producer, who also competes with the domestic firm for a final good. This has a...

In this paper we have developed a model which analyzes price competition in the deregulated Spanish electricity market. This model is the first to take explicitly into account the mechanism designed in the recent Spanish Electricity Law for settling stranded costs payments.

Recovery of stranded costs is perhaps the most litigious issue encountering regulators in promoting competition in United States and European utility industries. We build a dynamic model of Cournot competition which takes into account a particular regulatory mechanism regularly employed in...

Knickerbocker (1973) introduced "oligopolistic Reaction" to explain why firms follow rivals into foreign markets. We develop a model that incorporates the central features of Knickerbocker's stroy - oligopoly, uncertainty, and risk aversion - to establish the conditions required to generate...

This paper extends a model of symmetric oligopoly with linear demand and constant long-run marginal costs to include more general forms of demand and examines the effects of non-linearity upon dead-weight welfare losses at the monopoly and oligopoly outcomes.

The paper studies how second degree price discrimination can be implemented in a duopoly with differentiated products. Two firms serve consumers having heterogeneous willingness to pay for the good, willingness to pay being private knowledge. Consumers choose from a menu of tariffs and are...

We present a model of the TV-advertising market that encompasses both the product markets and the market for TV programs. We argue that the TV industry has several idiosyncratic characteristics that need to be modeled, and show that the strategic interaction in this industry differs from other...

Kinckerbocker (1973) introduced "oligopolistic reaction" to explain why firms follow rivals into foreign markets. We develop a model that incorporates the central features of Kinckerbocker's story -oligopoly, uncertainty, and risk aversion- to establish the conditions required to generate...