In the past 15 years, governments around the world have often used auctions to sellscarce licenses to operate in markets. In many of these auctions, the number of interestedcompetitors is relatively small compared to the number of available licenses. Auctiondesign is crucial in such...

We examine the trade-off between the benefits of allowing firms to cooperate in R&D and the corresponding increased potential for product market collusion. For that we utilize a dynamic model of R&D whereby we consider all possible initial marginal cost levels (technologies), including those...

For the classification of industries within a certain country on the basis of their comparative trade advantage or trade disadvantage it is common practise to use the Balassa index. If the value of this index exceeds 1, the concomitant industry is thought to have a comparative trade advantage....

To account for the illegal nature of price-fixing agreements, detection probabilities are introduced in a dynamic oligopoly. It follows that for a trigger strategy to sustain a non-cooperative collusive equilibrium as a SPNE both the discount rate and all per-period detection probabilities have...