We consider a model where a given number of firms decide on a pollution-reducing production technology, and then hire workers who subsequently form a monopoly union which sets the wage. We study the possibility of "double dividents", i.e. simultaneous reduction in pollution and increases in...

In a Hotelling-type differentiated-products duopoly model we distinguish between three alternative ways that persuasive advertising may affect consumer perferences. We illustrate the implications of our theory - an contrast with results from models of informative advertising - by analysing the...

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of breaking up national gas sales consortia in Western Europe. We show, within a numerical model of the Western European natural gas market- that once the demand side of the market is liberalized, each producing country has an incentive to break up...