Outsourcing is currently being used as an important strategy for many companies in the USA to focus on the core competency, reduce cost and increase profit. We consider a company (buyer) outsourcing a part of her service. One of the main concerns of outsourcing is the quality of service. We use...

Outsourcing is currently being used as an important strategy for many companies in the USA to focus on the core competency, reduce cost and increase profit. We consider a company (buyer) outsourcing a part of her service. One of the main concerns of outsourcing is the quality of service. We use...

We consider a duopoly market where two separate firms offer complementary goods in a leaderâfollower type move. Each firm has private forecast information about the uncertain market demand and decides whether to share it with the other firm. We show that information sharing would benefit the...

In this paper, we consider a manufacturer who sells a product to a retailer in a single selling season. Each party obtains a forecast of the market demand independent of each other. We study three different forecast scenarios: Non-Information Sharing, Information Sharing, and Retailer...

The research questions studied in this paper concern the role of demand side strategy for a firm engaged in duopolistic competition in quality and price. A demand side strategy research looks towards markets and consumers unlike the traditional resource side strategy research that looks upstream...

Utilizing a large transaction-level dataset on housing mortgages in China, this study estimates the effect of the mortgage rate spread between long- and short-term loans on property purchasers’ choice of loan length. To identify the effect of this spread on loan length, we rely on a unique...

We study an inside patent holder's optimal licensing policy when it has imperfect information about the value of the patent to its rival. The patent holder can choose any two-part licensing fee with either per unit or ad valorem royalties. We demonstrate that the equilibrium will be either a...

Utilizing a large transaction-level dataset on housing mortgages in China, this study estimates the effect of the mortgage rate spread between long- and short-term loans on property purchasers choice of loan length. Our identification of the causal effect of this spread on loan length hinges on...

This paper newly introduces sequential entry into previous models of spatial price discrimination that examine location choices made in anticipation of a potential merger. While merger with simultaneous entry routinely reduces social welfare, we show that mergers frequently improve welfare. The...