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We investigate a differentiated mixed duopoly in which private and public firms can choose to strategically set prices or quantities by facing a union bargaining process. For the case of a unionized mixed duopoly, only public firm is able to choose a type of contract based on the degree of...
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By introducing the government's preference for tax revenues into the theoretical framework of unionized mixed oligopolies, this study investigates the efficiency of privatization. The results show that (i) regardless of the government's preference for tax revenues, its incentive to privatize a...
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By introducing the government's preference for tax revenues into an extended game with observable delay, this study provides new insight into the trade-off between the government and the public firm's payoff in a government's optimal policy of privatization. The results show that: (i) regardless...
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We investigate a differentiated mixed duopoly in which private and public firms can choose to strategically set prices or quantities by facing a union bargaining process. For the case of a unionized mixed duopoly, only the public firm is able to choose a type of contract irrespective of whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015217016
This study investigates social welfare and privatization depending on the government's preference for tax revenues and the timing of wage setting in either a unionized-mixed or a unionized-privatized duopolistic market. We show that bargaining over wages is always sequential regardless of who...
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firm's inefficiency is sufficiently small, no imposition of budget constraint is more likely to improve welfare and vice … smaller or larger than those of private firm depending upon the degree of inefficiency, which draws contrast to the finding of … preferences with regard to the imposition of budget constraint depending upon both the degree of inefficiency and imperfect …
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substitutes or complements, if the degree of public firm's inefficiency is sufficiently small, there exists a dominant strategy … private firm that chooses Bertrand competition if the degree of inefficiency is sufficiently large. Consequently, we show that … public firm's inefficiency is sufficiently small; and (ii) if the degree of its inefficiency is sufficiently large, social …
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public firm's inefficiency when the goods are substitutes. (ii) regardless of its inefficiency, there can be always sustained … contract stage by each critical value of the public firm's inefficiency. In particular, Cournot and Bertrand competition … coexist if its inefficiency is sufficiently small or large. …
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By introducing the government's preference for tax revenues into unionized mixed duopolies, this paper investigates how the preference can change the government's choice of tax regimes between ad valorem and specific taxes. Main results are as follows. Given that one of the tax regimes is...
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We investigate how cost conditions of private firms affect optimal privatization policy and private firms' profits. We find that the optimal degree of privatization is decreasing with the costs of private firms unless the public firm is fully privatized in equilibrium. A cost reduction in a...
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