Browsing Duke Faculty Scholarship by Duke-affiliated Author "Yildirim, Huseyin"

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Managing Dynamic Competition

Lewis, Tracy; Yildirim, Huseyin (American Economic Review, 2002)

In many important high-technology markets, including software development, data processing, communications, aeronautics, and defense, suppliers learn through experience how to provide better service at lower cost. This ...
Managing Switching Costs in Multiperiod Procurements with Strategic Buyers

Lewis, Tracy; Yildirim, Huseyin (SSRN eLibrary, 2005)

This article examines the use of switching costs by long-lived strategic buyers to manage dynamic competition between rival suppliers. The analysis reveals how buyers may employ switching costs to their advantage. We show ...
On the endogeneity of Cournot-Nash and Stackelberg equilibria: games of accumulation

Romano, Richard; Yildirim, Huseyin (Journal of Economic Theory, 2005)

We characterize equilibria of games with two properties: (i) Agents have the opportunity to adjust their strategic variable after their initial choices and before payoffs occur; but (ii) they can only add to their initial ...
Proposal power and majority rule in multilateral bargaining with costly recognition

Yildirim, Huseyin (Journal of Economic Theory, 2007)

This paper studies a sequential bargaining model in which agents expend efforts to be the proposer. In equilibrium, agents' effort choices are influenced by the prize and cost effects. The (endogenous) prize is the difference ...