Abstract Motivated by the widespread presence both of decentralised unions and cross-participation at ownership level …-averse) decentralised monopoly unions. We show that such a common wisdom, while it holds when either unions or crossownership separately … unions and crossownership are in existence: this is because the interaction between the reduced employment due to cross …

implication is that, when wage-interested unions are in existence in oligopoly industries, a rise in cross-participation – i.e., a …-specific monopolistic unions. Since the cross-participation at ownership level implies a lower degree of competition, then in a duopoly … without unions, as expected, consumer surplus and social welfare, despite the increase in the industry profits, reduces when …

Motivated by the widespread presence both of decentralised unions and cross-participation at ownership level (for … extended with both equity participation of one firm in another firm and decentralised monopoly unions. We show that such a … common wisdom, while it holds when either unions or cross-ownership separately exist, is reversed for a fairly low degree of …

-researched field in the experimental oligopoly literature. We provide results from an experiment that varies the number of firms as …

Within a simple model of homogeneous oligopoly, we show that the traditional ranking between Bertrand and Cournot …

We investigate the possibility of using public firms to regulate polluting emissions in a Cournot oligopoly where …