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Access regulation and cross-border mergers: Is international coordination beneficial?
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Olsen, Trond E.; Straume, Odd Rune - Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2005
The international integration of regulated markets poses new challenges for regulatory policy. One question is the implications that the overall international regulatory regime will have for cross-border and/or domestic merger activity. In particular, do non-coordinated policies stimulate...
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Access regulation and cross-border mergers: Is international coordination beneficial?
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Olsen, Trond E.; Straume, Odd Rune - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2005
The international integration of regulated markets poses new challenges for regulatory policy. One question is the implications that the overall international regulatory regime will have for cross-border and/or domestic merger activity. In particular, do non-coordinated policies stimulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008918541
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Can deunionization lead to international outsourcing?
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - In: Journal of International Economics 77 (2009) 1, pp. 109-119
We analyze unionized firms' incentives to outsource intermediate goods production to foreign (low-cost) subcontractors. Such outsourcing leads to increased wages for the remaining in-house production. We find that stronger unions, which imply higher domestic wages, reduce incentives for...
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Merger Profitability in Unionized Oligopoly
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Sørgard, Lars; Straume, Odd Rune - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
We examine how a merger affects wages of unionized labour and, in turn, the profitability of a merger under Cournot competition in differentiated products. If unions are plant-specific, we find that a merger is more profitable than in a corresponding model with exogenous wages. In contrast to...
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Merger Profitability in Unionized Oligopoly
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune; Sørgard, Lars - Department of Economics, University of California-Santa … - 2000
We examine how a merger a ffects wages of unionized labour and, in turn, the profitability of a merger under both Cournot and Bertrand competition. If unions are plant-specific, we find that a merger is more profitable than in a corresponding model with exogenous wages. In contrast to the...
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National versus international mergers in unionized oligopoly
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune; Sørgard, Lars - In: RAND Journal of Economics 37 (2006) 1, pp. 212-233
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Good jobs, bad jobs and redistribution
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Sandvik, Bjørn; Straume, Odd Rune - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2002
Kombination aus Investitionssteuern und progressiver Einkommensbesteuerung vor. Im Falle von starken Gewerkschaften zeigt sich … Ungleichheit interessiert ist und wenn die Kosten der Einkommensbesteuerung hinreichend hoch sind. …
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Downstream merger with oligopolistic input suppliers
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune; Sørgard, Lars - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2002
Wir untersuchen, inwiefern nachgelagerte Fusionen Inputpreise erhöhen und wie diese wiederum die Fusionen bei Cournot … internationalen Oligopol an und zeigen, daß die Gleichgewichtsmarktstruktur wahrscheinlich durch grenzüberschreitende Fusionen …
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Can deunionization lead to international outsourcing?
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2006
empirischen Beobachtungen in Übereinstimmung, dass einerseits im Trend die gewerkschaftliche Organisation schwächer wird und …
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Globalisierung und gewerkschaftlicher Widerstand gegen technologischen Wandel
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2003
technologischen Fortschritt zu wehren, wenn die Arbeitsnachfrage unelastisch ist und den Gewerkschaften das Beschäftigungsniveau im … Löhne kollektiv festgelegt und es findet internationaler Handel statt. Zentral für die Einsicht des Modells ist die Tatsache … Aufholprozesse und wechselnde Technologieführerschaft. …
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