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Cournot-Bertrand competition in a unionized mixed duopoly

Kangsik, Choi - 2008

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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Privatization, Government's Preference and Unionization Structure: A Mixed Oligopoly Approach

Kangsik, Choi - 2009

welfare under a unionized privatized oligopoly is greater than under a unionized mixed oligopoly while the government has an …

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Comparing Cournot and Bertrand Competition in a Unionized Mixed Duopoly

Choi, Kangsik - 2008

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

Government's Preference and Timing of Endogenous Wage Setting: Perspectives on Privatization and Mixed Duopoly

Choi, Kangsik - 2009

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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Strategic Budget Constraints of Public Firm under Bertrand Competition of Unionized Mixed Duopoly

Choi, Kangsik - 2010

This paper investigates Bertrand competition of unionized mixed duopoly when the public firm is less efficient than the private firm, including endogenous imposition of the budget constraint on the public firm. Thus, we show that if the public firm's inefficiency is sufficiently small, no...

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Stability in a Cournot duopoly under asymmetric unionism

Fanti, Luciano; Gori, Luca - 2011

firm-specific unions on stability, when the degree of unionism is asymmetric between the two firms, is at all different … depending on whether the unionised firm has bounded rational or naive expectations. Indeed, a shift in the union’s preference …

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Efficient bargaining versus right to manage: a stability analysis with heterogeneous players in a duopoly with quantity competition and trade unions

Fanti, Luciano; Gori, Luca - 2011

bargaining (EB) and right to manage (RTM) unions and analyses product market stability under quantity competition. By focusing on … the role played by labour market institutions on the market dynamics, we show that when the preference of unions towards … preference of unions towards wages becomes higher, an increase in the union’s bargaining power acts: (1) as an economic …

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Indirect Taxation and Privatization in a Model of Government's Preference

Choi, Kangsik - 2012

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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Downstream competition and profits under different input price bargaining structures

Buccella, Domenico; Fanti, Luciano - 2019

under different market competition degrees. Downstream firms earn highest profits with semi-collusion whose level depends on …

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"Imperfectly competitive markets, trade unions and inflation: Do imperfectly competitive markets transmit more inflation than perfectly competitive ones? A theoretical appraisal"

Corchon, Luis - 1994

In this paper we study the conjecture that oligopoly or imperfect competition causes more inflation than perfect …

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