We investigate the firms' and unions' incentives to engage in social responsibility activities in a unionized differentiated goods' duopoly market. The socially responsible attributes attached to products are considered as credence goods, with consumers forming expectations about their existence...

We consider a two-tier industry with an upstream monopolist trading, via interim observable linear tariff contracts, with two differentiated goods downstream of Stackelberg competitors. The upstream monopolist owns a symmetric minority share on both downstream customers, i.e., there is passive...

We consider a homogenous good Cournot duopoly, in which a firm owns acost-reducing technology and has a non-controlling share over its rival. Weshow that partial passive ownership holdings may induce licensing via afixed fee and increase consumer surplus, tax revenues, and social...