This paper analyzes wage negotiation between firms and unions when crossparticipation exists at ownership level. We consider two shareholders and two firms: one firm is jointly owned by the two shareholders and the other is owned by a single shareholder. Labor is unionized and the firms produce...

This paper analyzes wage negotiation between firms and unions when cross-participation exists at ownership level. We consider two shareholders and two firms: one firm is jointly owned by the two shareholders and the other is owned by a single shareholder. Labor is unionized and the firms produce...

This paper analyzes wage negotiation between firms and unions when crossparticipation exists at ownership level. We consider two shareholders and two firms: one firm is jointly owned by the two shareholders and the other is owned by a single shareholder. Labor is unionized and the firms produce...

This paper analyzes the interaction between two political economy decisions by a government: whether to privatize a public firm and what environmental policy to choose (an environmental tax or an emission standard). We find that when market competition is weak the government does not privatize...

La literatura que analiza el efecto de la inversión directa extranjera ha estudiado, principalmente, la repercusión que tiene sobre el bienestar social de un país la localización en él de una empresa. En este artículo, por el contrario, analizamos cómo se ve afectado el bienestar social...

In this paper we consider two imperfectly competitive industries, with the polluting emissions from one industry harming the productivity of labor in the other. The polluting industry has to pay an environmental tax chosen by the government. In this framework, we analyze how the different...

The literature on the environment has analyzed how firms carry out R&D to reduce their pollutant emissions, assuming that they maximize profits. However, empirical evidence shows that firms are increasingly concerned about Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR). Following that...

This paper examines whether a Northern firm prefers to export or to engage in FDI to serve the South. If the firm engages in FDI, its technology is imitated, and a Southern firm enters the market that may sell in both markets. The Northern firm may invest to prevent product piracy in the North....

This paper studies the incentive by governments to implement emissions taxes when firms are environmentally friendly and sell their products on a single world market. Firms choose their R&D non-cooperatively and governments can pre-commit to an emissions tax. We find that the decision of...

En este artículo analizamos la elección, por motivos estratégicos, de la forma en que se organiza una empresa en cuanto al grado de centralización de las decisiones de producción. Mostramos cómo la forma organizativa puede ser utilizada para disuadir la entrada de rivales o para modificar...