This paper explores how a government officer enacts “optimum” import policy when confronting lobbies on trade policies from both domestic and foreign firms in a transition economy. Two results are found: firstly, if the inducement from the foreign firm on the government officer works, then...

We construct a dynamic bilateral monopoly game to analyze the bargaining between a foreign manufacturer and a domestic retailer regarding the wholesale price and explain the foreign upstream firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative and its economic impacts on the domestic market....

This paper generalizes Gaudin (2016) adding the CSR concerns under a general demand form, and focuses on the double marginalization problem in single-product successive monopolies with one manufacturer and one retailer. We assume that manufacturer or retailer non-cooperatively engages in CSR...