Shopbots function as market intermediaries by providing unprecedented quantities of information to buyers and sellers. This paper explores the role of market structure across shopbot mediated markets using an unbalanced panel of 399 digital camera models. It extends prior work by using an...

In an international duopoly model, we investigate how trade liberalisation impacts on collective bargaining outcomes when workers are represented by open shop unions. We find that, with intermediate levels of union density, trade liberalisation may lead to higher negotiated wages even if no...

This paper analyses the impact of FDI on the employment, productivity, profitability and survival performance of urban SOEs in China, with the aid of a rich panel data set over the period 1999-2005. Our estimation strategy controls for the endogeneity of a number of regressors and accounts for...