We investigate how manufacturers' advertising competition, when advertising has a dynamic impact on the goodwill that affects market demand, interacts with the price competition in a manufacturer-retailer channel. Specifically, we examine the strategic choices made by manufacturers, the role of...

This paper studies the collaboration of talents in rank-order tournaments. We use a structural matching model with unobserved transfers among participants to capture the differentiated incentives of participants that spur collaboration, with a specific focus on incorporating incomplete...

We investigate the economic determinants of contract structure and entry in an empirical setting with transfer contracts, which specify that manufacturers directly sell their products in retail stores while retailers collect the sales revenue and return a transfer to the manufacturers. Using a...