We examine that the bilateral supplier affects the incentive contracts that owners of retailers offer their managers, assuming that the manufacturer sets the input price after observing the terms of the incentive contracts offered to management in the downstream market. Thus, we compare the two...

We investigate government subsidy policies in which a home firm and a foreign firm choose to strategically set prices or quantities in a third market. We show that even though each firm can earn higher profits under Cournot competition than under Bertrand competition regardless of the nature of...

We investigate government subsidy policies in which a home firm and a foreign firm choose to strategically set prices or quantities in a third market. We show that even though each firm can earn higher profits under Cournot competition than under Bertrand competition regardless of the nature of...

Using two-part tariff under mutual outsourcing between symmetric downstream firms, we demonstrate endogenous choice of vertical structure with each exclusive channel. Recent market structure captures that the mutual outsourcing has become a common business practice in technology intensive...

We investigate the choice of endogenous timing by managerial firms in the presence of network externalities under Bertrand competition. Contrast to the results of sequentiality in equilibrium, we demonstrate that when managers are being delegated both the market and timing decision, there exists...

We study firms' strategic delegation decisions when facing consumers with heterogeneous willingness to pay in a Cournot game. We consider a market comprising two consumer groups, with either a high or low willingness to pay. In this market, we first consider the case of symmetric marginal costs...

Incorporating the extension of exclusive dealing into Cournot competition, we analyze the multiproduct downstream firms' choice of organizational form between U-form and M-form. With managerial delegation in downstream firms, we find that choosing U-form for the downstream firms is a dominant...

By allowing exporters to produce under asymmetric increasing marginal costs, we investigate the impact of tariff discrimination when considering exporters' endogenous choice of competition mode. Discriminatory tariffs lead to Cournot competition, whereas uniform tariffs lead to diverse modes of...

We investigate a differentiated mixed duopoly in which private and public firms can choose to strategically set prices or quantities when unions are present. For the case of a unionised mixed duopoly, there exists a dominant strategy only for the public firm that chooses Bertrand competition...