Industry-wide voluntary agreements are touted as a means for corporations to take more corporate social responsibility (CSR). We study what type of joint CSR agreement induces firms to increase CSR efforts in a model of oligopolistic competition with differentiated products. Consumers have a...

This paper critically assess the impact of EU legislation that makes sustainability efforts for companies mandatory on the efforts under EU competition law to support the EU Green Deal Agenda. It can be considered as a starting point in trying to reconcile two trends: the sustainability turn in...

"The rapid growth of multinational corporations has given rise to many complex and controversial international law and governance issues. Driven to maximize shareholder value, these corporations are legally structured to seize every advantage while also benefiting from generous investor rights...

Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Legal Frameworks Straining Boundaries -- 1. Foreign Wrongs, Corporate Rights and the Arc of Transnational Law -- 2. The Corporation and Modern Capitalism: Folk, Broke and Woke -- 3. Implications of a Sophisticated...

Competition has been argued to erode socially responsible behavior in markets, suggesting that allowing cartel agreements among firms may promote public interest objectives. We test this idea in a laboratory experiment. Participants playing the role of firms choose between offering a "fair" and...