The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences on the optimal organizational design of firms. We consider a moral-hazard environment with inferiority averse workers. The integration of workers in one organizational unit yields productive complementarities but also...

This paper studies technology adoption in a duopoly where the unbiased technological change improves production efficiency. Technological progress is exogenous and modeled as a jump process with a drift. There is always a Markov perfect equilibrium in which the firm with more efficient...

This paper studies the behavior of two firms after a new investment opportunity arises. Examples of such an investment are technology adoption or market entry. Firms either invest immediately or wait until market uncertainty is resolved. Two types of separating equilibrium are possible when...

This paper tests an intermediary asset pricing model in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) and Iran Fara Bourse (IFB) markets to inspect a new dimension of heterogeneity among the intermediaries: ownership type. We consider closed-end investment funds, known in Iran as investment companies, to...