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Foreign direct investment, labour market regulation and self-interested governments
Palokangas, Tapio K. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001766500
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FDI, international trade and union collusion
Buccella, Domenico - 2010
This paper deals with firms' decision related to international activities in a twocountry oligopoly model with a homogeneous product and unionized labor markets. Using a three-stage non-cooperative game with firms being first movers, it is found that firms' strategies are affected by the scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347041
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International production and wage coordination in an integrated economy (revised)
Buccella, Domenico - 2011
Key aspects in economic integrated areas like the EU are both the internationalization of productive activities, which usually occurs in unionized countries, and the ongoing process of labor market integration. In a symmetric two-country duopoly model with integrated product markets, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373495
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FDI, International Trade and Union Collusion
Buccella, Domenico - 2010
This paper deals with firms' decision related to international activities in a twocountry oligopoly model with a homogeneous product and unionized labor markets. Using a three-stage non-cooperative game with firms being first movers, it is found that firms' strategies are affected by the scale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345455
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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms
Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2010
regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels … lobbying, but that lobbying can reverse the welfare ordering. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315488
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Lobbying activities of multinational firms
Polk, Andreas - 2002
This paper investigates if multinationals in.uence the political process through lobbying more effectively than … national firms. First, I introduce a model which contrasts a multinational's incentives for lobbying with those of a national … firm. Then the effect of lobbying on the political decision is analyzed. I conclude that multinationals have smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315594
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Lobbying activities of multinational firms
Polk, Andreas (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper investigates if multinationals in.uence the political process through lobbying more effectively than … national firms. First, I introduce a model which contrasts a multinational’s incentives for lobbying with those of a national … firm. Then the effect of lobbying on the political decision is analyzed. I conclude that multinationals have smaller …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001729417
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Lobbying and the power of multinational firms
Polk, Andreas; Schmutzler, Armin; Müller, Adrian - 2010
regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels … lobbying, but that lobbying can reverse the welfare ordering. -- Multinational enterprises ; regulation ; policy formation … ; lobbying ; interest groups ; foreign direct investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696003
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Foreign ownership and intra-firm union density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers’ unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124745
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Foreign ownership and intra-firm union density in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2017
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011752199