I examine a Knightian model of entrepreneurial risk and investment where in addition to the self-selection process for choosing entrepreneurs, there is an evolutionary selection process over the representation of various risk attitudes. Under a standard evolutionary dynamic, rather than...

The fundamental contribution of the paper is to contest the view that greater market contestability has non-negative effects on market performance. In a model where employees pose a threat of potential entry, we demonstrate that a reduction in barriers to entry causes no fall in industry price...

Is it always wise to disclose good news? We find that the worst sender with good news has the most incentive to disclose it, so reporting good news can paradoxically make the sender look bad. If the good news is attainable by sufficiently mediocre types, or if the sender is already expected to...

The fundamental contribution of the paper is to contest the view that greater market contestability has non-negative effects on market performance. In a model where employees pose a threat of potential entry, we demonstrate that a reduction in barriers to entry causes no fall in industry price...

The author examines an infinite-period duopoly market with positive consumer switching costs and overlapping generations of consumers. When consumers have a finite time-horizon, then, unlike A. Beggs and R. Klemperer (1992), the two firms may alternate dominance from one period to the next,...

Available evidence indicates that costs of nontraded services in domestic transportation, wholesaling, and retailing (domestic margins) are higher if a good is shipped in international trade than if it is shipped from domestic producers to domestic consumers. Consequently, domestic margins...

Although the GATT prohibits discriminatory import tariffs, it includes means for circumventing this prohibition. The previous literature uses static models and discriminatory tariffs increase welfare. In a dynamic model, if governments lack the ability to precommit, this is not necessarily true....