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Birger Wernerfelt

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• Sloan School of Management
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

  Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
  Homepage: http://mitsloan.mit.edu/
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  Postal: 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
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Working papers

1. Wernerfelt, Birger, 2004. "Robust Incentive Contracts," Working papers 4448-03, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. [Downloadable!]

2. Wernerfelt, Birger, 2003. "Governance of Adjustments," Working papers 4412-03, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. [Downloadable!]

3. Wernerfelt, Birger, 2003. "Resources, Adjustments, and Diversification: Evidence from Production Functions," Working papers 4277-03, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. [Downloadable!]

4. Wernerfelt, Birger, 2003. "Indirect Adjustment-Costs Under Alternative Coordination Regimes," Working papers 4336-01, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. [Downloadable!]

5. Wernerfelt, Birger, 2003. "Organizational Languages," Working papers 4278-03, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. [Downloadable!]
   Published as:
   • Birger Wernerfelt, 2004. "Organizational Languages," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 13(3), pages 461-472, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

6. Hauser, John R. & Simester, Duncan I. & Wernerfelt, Birger., 1997. "Side payments in marketing," Working papers 161-97. Working paper (Sl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. [Downloadable!]

7. Wernerfelt, Birger. & Simester, Duncan I. & Hauser, John R., 1997. "Influence transfers, performance, and performance ratings," Working papers 160-97. Working paper (Sl, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. [Downloadable!]

8. Hauser, John R. & Simester, Duncan I. & Wernerfelt, Birger., 1995. "Internal customers and internal suppliers," Working papers 3759-95. WP (Internationa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. [Downloadable!]

9. Simester, Duncan I. & Wernerfelt, Birger. & Hauser, John R., 1995. "Overcoming collusion : using a supervisor to costlessly resolve moral hazard," Working papers #117-95. Working paper (S, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. [Downloadable!]

10. Birger Wernerfelt, 1988. "On Existence of a Nash Equilibrium Point in N-Person Nunzero Sum Stochastic Jump Differential Games," Discussion Papers 779, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science. [Downloadable!]

11. Birger Wernerfelt, 1988. "Economic Organization of Trading Relationships: Hierarchies and Asset Ownership," Discussion Papers 824, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science. [Downloadable!]

12. Birger Wernerfelt, 1988. "Market Frictions and Posted Prices," Discussion Papers 778, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science. [Downloadable!]

13. Birger Wernerfelt, 1987. "Market Frictions and Hierarchical Trading Institutions," Discussion Papers 743, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science. [Downloadable!]

14. Birger Wernerfelt, 1986. "Uniqueness of Nash Equilibrium for Linear-Convex Stochastic Differential Games," Discussion Papers 694, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science. [Downloadable!]

15. Birger Wernerfelt, 1986. "Tacit Collusion and Product Differentiation," Discussion Papers 693, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science. [Downloadable!]

1. Birger Wernerfelt, 2008. "Bargaining Before or After Communication?," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 164(2), pages 211-229, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2. Birger Wernerfelt, 2007. "Delegation, Committees, and Managers," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 16(1), pages 35-51, 03. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

3. Birger Wernerfelt, 2007. "Renegotiation Facilitates Contractual Incompleteness," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 16(4), pages 893-910, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

4. Duncan I. Simester & Birger Wernerfelt, 2005. "Determinants of Asset Ownership: A Study of the Carpentry Trade," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 87(1), pages 50-58, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

5. Birger Wernerfelt, 2004. "Organizational Languages," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 13(3), pages 461-472, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
   Other versions:
   • Wernerfelt, Birger, 2003. "Organizational Languages," Working papers 4278-03, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management. [Downloadable!]

6. Birger Wernerfelt, 2002. "Why Should the Boss Own the Assets?," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 11(3), pages 473-485, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

7. Prelec, Drazen & Wernerfelt, Birger & Zettelmeyer, Florian, 1997. " The Role of Inference in Context Effects: Inferring What You Want from What Is Available," Journal of Consumer Research: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, University of Chicago Press, vol. 24(1), pages 118-25, June.

8. Wernerfelt, Birger, 1997. "On the Nature and Scope of the Firm: An Adjustment-Cost Theory," Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 70(4), pages 489-514, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

9. Wernerfelt, Birger, 1995. " A Rational Reconstruction of the Compromise Effect: Using Market Data to Infer Utilities," Journal of Consumer Research: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, University of Chicago Press, vol. 21(4), pages 627-33, March.

10. Montgomery, Cynthia A & Wernerfelt, Birger, 1992. "Risk Reduction and Umbrella Branding," Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 65(1), pages 31-50, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

11. Hauser, John R & Wernerfelt, Birger, 1990. " An Evaluation Cost Model of Consideration Sets," Journal of Consumer Research: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, University of Chicago Press, vol. 16(4), pages 393-408, March.

12. Wernerfelt, Birger, 1990. "Advertising Content When Brand Choice Is a Signal," Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 63(1), pages 91-98, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

13. Wernerfelt, Birger, 1989. "Tacit collusion in differentiated cournot games," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 29(4), pages 303-306. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

14. Birger Wernerfelt, 1988. "Umbrella Branding as a Signal of New Product Quality: An Example of Signalling by Posting a Bond," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 19(3), pages 458-466, Autumn. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

15. Cynthia A. Montgomery & Birger Wernerfelt, 1988. "Diversification, Ricardian Rents, and Tobin's q," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 19(4), pages 623-632, Winter. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

16. Wernerfelt, Birger, 1988. "General Equilibrium with Real Time Search in Labor and Product Market s," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 96(4), pages 821-31, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

17. Wernerfelt, Birger, 1988. "Reputation, monitoring, and effort," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 3(3), pages 207-218. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

18. Wernerfelt, Birger & Montgomery, Cynthia A, 1988. "Tobin's q and the Importance of Focus in Firm Performance," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 78(1), pages 246-50, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

19. Wernerfelt, Birger, 1986. "Product Line Rivalry: Note," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 76(4), pages 842-44, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

20. Sappington, David E M & Wernerfelt, Birger, 1985. "To Brand or Not to Brand? A Theoretical and Empirical Question," Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 58(3), pages 279-93, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

21. Wernerfelt, Birger, 1985. "Brand loyalty and user skills," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 6(4), pages 381-385, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

22. Wernerfelt, Birger, 1984. "Consumers with differing reaction speeds, scale advantages and industry structure," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 24(2), pages 257-270, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

23. Wernerfelt, Birger, 1984. "Stagflation, new products, and speculation," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 6(3), pages 295-309. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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