A durable-goods monopolist may use quality degradation as a commitment not to lower price in the future. The introduction of damaged goods expedites lowvaluation consumers? future demands, and helps the firm to mitigate the Coasian time-consistency problem. In such a case, damaged goods are more...

This paper examines how a durable-goods monopolist’s choice of product quality interacts with time inconsistency problems in an environment, where the firm faces an irreversible decision on quality and unit production costs increase in quality. The monopolist may have incentives to choose a...

This note examines firms’ strategic choices between leasing and selling in a market for horizontally differentiated durable goods. Firms’ decisions on marketing strategies may lead to socially inefficient outcomes. Moreover, a prisoners’ dilemma-type situation may arise.