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Cross border mergers and strategic trade policy with two-part taxation: is international policy coordination beneficial?

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Olsen, Trond E.; Straume, Odd Rune - 2006

overall welfare enhancing compared to market outcomes under coordinated policy making. …

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Quality and location choices under price regulation

Brekke, Kurt R.; Nuscheler, Robert; Straume, Odd Rune - 2002

In a model of spatial competition, we analyse the equilibrium outcomes in markets where the product price is exogenous. Using an extended version of the Hotelling model, we assume that firms choose their locations and the quality of the product they supply. We derive the optimal price set by a...

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Globalisation and union opposition to technological change

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2003

We find that trade unions have a rational incentive to oppose the adaption of labour-saving technology when labour … union technology opposition. These conclusions are reached in a model of international duopoly with monopoly wage setting in … for technology opposition is stronger in the more technologically advanced country and in the country with the larger home …

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Downstream merger with oligopolistic input suppliers

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune; Sørgard, Lars - 2002

We examine how a downstream merger affects input prices and, in turn, the profitability of such a merger under Cournot competition with differentiated products. Input suppliers can be interpreted as ordinary upstream firms, or trade unions organising workers. If the input suppliers are...

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