This paper analyzes a procurement setting with two identical firms and stochastic innovations. In contrast to the previous literature, I show that a procurer who cannot charge entry fees may prefer a fixed-prize tournament to a first-price auction since holding an auction may leave higher rents to firms when the innovation technology is subject to large random factors.

This work provides a computational cobweb model with heterogeneous adaptive producers with endogenous market entry and exit. Firms face a borrowing constraint and so can go bankrupt. At the same time when average profits are positive there is an inflow of new firms in the market. Bounded dynamics and endogenous volatility are shown to follow without resorting to nonlinearities.

We develop and estimate a spatial game-theoretic model of entry and location choices to examine firms’ strategic clustering decisions. The model identifies two contradictory effects that determine firms’ geographical location choices: a competition effect and a clustering effect. We also separate firms’ strategic clustering incentives from the observed clustering behavior due to exogenous facto...

Mixed oligopolies are characterized by private and public enterprises. Previously, entry into these markets was restrictive. It has since been relaxed deregulations, as a result, firms have entered mixed oligopolies. An increase in the number of increases competition among them reduces profit incumbent firms, given privatization policy remains unchanged. However, an may affect policy, thus, ind...

In the empirical study of markets, models of entry are often used to study the nature of firms’ profits and the nature of competition between firms. Most of these estimated models have been parametric. In this paper, we review and extend a number of results on the identification of models that are used in the empirical literature. We study simple versions of both static and dynamic entry models...

empirical studies have shown that the size distribution of firms can be described as a lognormal or pareto distribution. however, these studies have focused on developed countries and little attention has been devoted to developing countries. using the variable of number of employees as a measure of firm size, this paper investigates the shape of firm size distribution in the food & beverages i...

This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics and the reallocation of resources within industries over time. Following deregulation, we find that the extent of resource misallocation declines and a considerable thickening of the left-hand tail of the firm-size distribution suggesting a significant increase in the number of s...