through price leadership, a form of inter-firm coordination that has been explicitly granted an exemption from antitrust … downstream firms through a variety of legal mechanisms that have also been exempted from antitrust enforcement. Attempts to …

-cost margin and union bargaining power tend to be higher in some service sectors depicting however substantial heterogeneity …

The applicability of competition laws to collective bargaining has long been debated in the law literature of the U … regulate the structure of markets and to promote competition meanwhile, collective bargaining can also be considered to be … among the primary forces shaping the economy. The relationship between collective bargaining and competition, therefore, is …

We analyze a bargaining model where there is a long-term relationship between a seller and a buyer and there is … bargaining over a sequence of surpluses that arrives at fixed points in time. Markov Perfect Equilibria are analyzed and …

This paper investigates the patterns of bargaining in multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the presence of labor unions … coordination activities. It derives the bargaining regimes which arise as sub-game perfect equilibria, and considers both … unions’ per member transaction costs may attenuate the conflict of interests between bargaining parties as regards the …