(cooperative vs. private) and different marketing strategies (customers with more or less stringent SPS requirements) highlight the …

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of R&D cooperation on cartel formation in the product market … simplicity we focus on the case of duopoly. Numerical analysis shows that a closer cooperation at the R&D stage may strengthen …

The Italian region Emilia-Romagna ranks first among the world's most important cooperative districts. Using a unique … dataset covering all firms registered in the region, we investigate the performance of active firms in the period 2010-18. By … focusing on employment, revenue and profits of cooperative firms as compared to conventional firms, we disentangle the …