The paper addresses the question how production capacities on an established market affect the innovativeness of firms. We analyze the strategic interactions in an oligopoly setting where firms offer an established product and have the option to offer an additional new product. We show that the...

We consider a repeated interaction between a manufacturing firm and a subcontractor. The realtionship between the two parties is characterized 1) by moral hazard, 2) by the fact that they do not have perfect knowledge about the base cost level of the project carried out by a subcontractor (the...