Learning-by-doing and organizational forgetting have been shown to be important in a variety of industrial settings. This paper provides a general model of dynamic competition that accounts for these economic fundamentals and shows how they shape industry structure and dynamics. Previously...

This paper provides an explanation for why the sunk cost bias persists among firms in a competitive environment in which rich learning possibilities are allowed. We envision firms that experiment with cost methodologies that are consistent with real-world accounting practices, including ones...

This paper provides an explanation for why the sunk cost bias persists among firms competing in a differentiated product oligopoly. Firms experiment with cost methodologies that are consistent with real-world accounting practices, including ones that allocate fixed and sunk costs to determine...