The paper studies a generic bilateral trade model with relationship-specific investments. Only the seller invests, and subsequent trade becomes inefficient if his investments are too low. We show that the seller may defect strategically under a fixed-price contract even though he attains any...

This paper further develops the standard modelling of information exchange between firms in the presence of demand uncertainty which applies to firms in new industries and insecure regions or markets. We replace the normal distribution of the random variables, commonly used because of its...

So far, the existing literature on the hold-up problem with renegotiation has imposed assumptions such that the post-renegotiation payoffs are absolutely continuous functions. Since payoffs may fail to be differentiable at the investment profile to be sustained, first order conditions for...

Polish Abstract: Celem artykułu jest weryfikacja możliwości redukcji negatywnego wpływu asymetrii informacji na rynek ubezpieczeń komunikacyjnych przez wdrożenie produktów typu Usage‑Based Insurance. Autor dokonuje analizy ekonomicznej, uzyskując przewidywania modeli rynku przy...