In this paper we analyse a railroad cartel run by the Joint Executive Committee (JEC) in the United States in the nineteenth century. The JEC was a cartel whose members anticipated a periodic fall in demand due to competition ...
We incorporate previously omitted controls of external conditions in transportation and commodity markets into Porter's (1983) analysis of industry demand, conduct and stability of the JEC
railroad cartel. We estimate the ...
We study the effects of discounting in a standard endogenous price leadership model. We show that there will be occasional changes in the identity of the leader with any cost of delay or discounting, however small. By ...
We show that the stylized facts of the Firm Size Distribution (FSD) by age cohorts, as shown
in Cabral and Mata (2003), bind within 4-digit manufacturing industries in the UK and
Belgium. As in Klepper and Thompson (2006) ...