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Budget or Target: The Choice Between Input and Output Strategies

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Nolan H. Miller () (Harvard University)
Amit I. Pazgal () (Washington University)
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In many competitive environments, players need to commit either to a specific goal they will achieve (an output target) or to the resources they are willing to expend in pursuit of that goal (an input budget).We model this situation as a two-stage game where players may compete either by setting input and letting their output follow from the environment ("leading input"), or by setting output and letting the input levels required to support the output targets follow ("leading output"). We show that when each player's output is increasing (decreasing) in his rival's input, leading input (output) dominates leading output (input). Ordering information: This article can be ordered from http://gemini.econ.umd.edu/cgi-bin/rje_online.cgi?action=view&year=2006&issue=sum&page=391&tid=30492&sc=1869P1N9.

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Article provided by The RAND Corporation in its journal RAND Journal of Economics.

Volume (Year): 37 (2006)
Issue (Month): 2 (Summer)
Pages: 391-415
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  1. Nolan Miller & Amit Pazgal, 2007. "Advertising budgets in competitive environments," Quantitative Marketing and Economics, Springer, vol. 5(2), pages 131-161, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Miller, Nolan, 2008. "Outcome Commitments in Third Party Intervention: Theory and Application to U.S. Policy in Iraq," Working Paper Series rwp08-041, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government. [Downloadable!]
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