We consider a duopoly with cost asymmetry and demand uncertainty and show that rivalry in (process) R&D can be ex-ante harmful to both firms if they produce under supply function competition. However, if the firms produce under Cournot competition, only the efficient firm ex-ante suffers from...

In this paper, we investigate whether a natural monopoly with private cost information can reduce the likelihood of regulatory threat by investing, in the ex-ante stage, in cost-reducing R&D to generate process innovations and whether such an investment can yield Pareto gains in welfare. We...

This paper studies the incentives for, and the welfare effects of, pre-donation in a vertically related industry where two downstream firms that produce a homogenous good jointly bargain, using the generalized Nash rule, with an upstream firm over a linear input price before they engage in...

This paper characterizes conditions for two-player bargaining problems and bargaining rules under which unilateral pre-donation always yields Pareto utility gains. The paper also computes the optimal pre-donation of each player under the class of proportional bargaining rules.

This paper considers a duopoly with asymmetric costs and demand uncertainty to study the welfare effects of pretend-but-perform regulation (PPR) of Koray and Sertel (1988) under three modes of competition, involving the Cournot, conjectural variations, and supply function competitions. PPR...

This paper studies the optimal antitrust policies for vertical price restraints in an infinitely-lived non-green supply chain channel that emits air pollution during production. The channel involves a supplier and a retailer that can either engage in sequential (Stackelberg) price competition...

We consider a collective bargaining model for the determination of labor hours and wages in the presence of a government that can tax corporate income. The original form of this model was developed by Del Rey et al. (2022) in the absence of taxes. Using our modified model with taxes, we...

This paper studies the welfare effects of the abatement cost burden of a supplier in a multi-echelon supply chain. We theoretically show that the profits of all echelons other than the supplier become lower when the supplier contributes more to the abatement. Also, we computationally show that...

We examine the issue of learning in a generalized principal-agent model with incomplete information. We show that there are situations in which the agent prefers a Bayesian regulator to have more information about his private type. Moreover, the outcome of the Bayesian mechanism regulating the...

In this paper, we study the long-played, yet until now unmodeled, college admissions game over early admissions plans using a many-to-one matching framework. We characterize the equilibrium strategies of each college involving its early quota out of its total capacity, and the set of admissible...