Consumers' environmental awareness and endogenous managerial delegation choice between sales and environmental incentives

L Xu, SH Lee - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This study considers consumers' environmental awareness (CEA) and examines firms'
managerial delegation contracts between sales and environmental performance incentives …

Cross-ownership and strategic environmental corporate social responsibility under price competition

M **ng, SH Lee - Environment and Development Economics, 2024 - cambridge.org
This paper examines the impact of cross-ownership on the strategic incentive of
environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) within a green managerial delegation …

Cournot–Bertrand comparisons under double managerial delegation contracts with sales and environmental incentives

L Xu, SH Lee - Managerial and Decision Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the effect of consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for green products
on double managerial delegation contracts with sales and environmental incentives. We …

Welfare-reducing price competition under relative performance delegation with convex costs

L Xu, T Matsumura - Economic Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
Price competition is thought to be more intense than quantity competition in oligopolies. By
introducing strategic delegation contracts, this study challenges this belief. We consider …

Network externalities, product compatibility and process innovation

D Buccella, L Fanti, L Gori - Economics of Innovation and New …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article augments d'Aspremont and Jacquemin's [1988.“Cooperative and
Noncooperative R&D in Duopoly with Spillovers.” American Economic Review 78: 1133 …

Vertical product differentiation, managerial delegation and social welfare in a vertically-related market

X Wang, LFS Wang - Mathematical Social Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we analyze the influence of the delegation of downstream firms that produce
different quality of products on the profits, consumer surplus and social welfare in a vertically …

Endogenous competition with an integrated public utility firm under an output subsidy policy

L Xu, SH Lee - Utilities Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we consider a mixed downstream market wherein a vertically integrated public
utility firm competes with a private firm that purchases inputs from an upstream firm under …

Network externalities and process R&D: A Cournot–Bertrand comparison

M Naskar, R Pal - Mathematical social sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper examines the implication of the nature of competition in a market with network
externalities on strategic investment in process R&D by firms. It shows that network …

Cross-ownership and managerial delegation under vertical product differentiation

X Wang, LFS Wang, H Liu - Journal of Economics, 2024 - Springer
We construct a vertical product differentiation duopoly model incorporating managerial
delegation and cross-ownership. By exploring the interplay of these factors, we find a U …

Collusion in a differentiated duopoly with network externalities

R Song, LFS Wang - Economics Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Conventional wisdom is that collusion between firms will be destabilized when they produce
closer substitutes of products. We show that, in the presence of strong network externalities …