Managerial Economics Working Papers, Managerial Economics Research Papers

The practice of dynamic pricing, so typical of low cost carriers, is generally regarded as a form of price discrimination between leisure and business travellers on the single flight or on the single route. Across ...

This research investigates the impact of foreign (Anglo-American) board membership on corporate performance calculated in terms of firm value (Tobin’s Q). On a basis of organizations with hq in Norway or Sweden case study signifies ...

Leading firms have begun to offer user toolkits for innovation. User toolkits are seen as a means to eliminate (costly) iterations of need-related-information between users and producers in the product development process because toolkits allow ...

The thought of heterogeneous capital has a long and prominent place in Austrian economics. The development of Austrian capital theory has been marked by the struggle to develop consistent analytical categories and aggregate measures for ...

The earliest literature in oligopoly theory treated the choice between simultaneous and sequential moves as exogenous. The issue of timing is addressed in a game between managerial firms. The choice over timing can be taken ...

Several operations decisions are based on some kind of forecast of future demand. For this reason, manufacturing companies pay significant attention towards this process and research has devoted attention to this issue. This paper investigates ...

Marginal cost estimation of railway infrastructure wear and tear is an important task. In this paper, dynamic aspects of railway infrastructure operation and maintenance costs in Sweden are explored. Econometric cost functions are estimated to check ...

This paper suggests that the interaction between firms’ entry and exit decisions and variation in the degree of competition gives rise to endogenous procyclical movements in measured total factor productivity (TFP). Based on this result, ...

Retailing is traditionally viewed as a industry characterized by many firms and easy entry. In intermediate goods markets, both buyers and sellers normally have market power, and sales are based on bilaterally negotiated contracts specifying ...

We develop a New Keynesian model with staggered price and wage setting where downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) arises endogenously through the wage bargaining institutions. It is shown that the optimal (discretionary) monetary policy response ...