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On the social desirability of centralized wage setting when firms are run by biased managers
Meccheri, Nicola - 2022
This paper compares the welfare outcomes obtained under alternative unionization regimes (decentralized vs. centralized wage setting) in a duopoly market, in which shareholders delegate strategic decisions to biased (overconfident or underconfident) managers. In such a framework, the common...
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A NOTE ON FRANCHISING AND WAGE BARGAINING
Grandner, Thomas - Vienna University of Economics and Business Research … - 2004
A franchise contract relocates distributable rent between franchisor and franchisee. With decentralized wage bargaining this modifies the position of the union in wage bargaining. If the rent is relocated to the franchisor completely, then even a strong union is not able to raise the wage above...
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Wage Bargaining and Employer Objectives
Falch, Torberg - Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Norges … - 2002
This paper compares union wage bargaining outcomes across different types of employers. Five different employer objectives are discussed; profit–, welfare– and output maximization, and two specifications of a Leviathan. The model shows that the ordering of the union wage level across employer...
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Multiproduct Mergers and the Product Mix in Domestic and Foreign Markets
Chan, Jackie M.L.; Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of mergers on the product mix of multiproduct firms. Thus, we open the black box of … mergers in a theoretical model where oligopolistic firms employ a flexible manufacturing technology and allocate assets … greater activity in foreign markets. Using detailed Danish register data, we document novel facts regarding mergers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266687
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Multiproduct mergers and the product mix in domestic and foreign markets
Chan, Jackie M. L.; Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of mergers on the product mix of multiproduct firms. Thus, we open the black box of … mergers in a theoretical model where oligopolistic firms employ a flexible manufacturing technology and allocate assets … greater activity in foreign markets. Using detailed Danish register data, we document novel facts regarding mergers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278534
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Multiproduct mergers and the product mix in domestic and foreign markets
Chan, Jackie M. L.; Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of mergers on the product mix of multiproduct firms. Thus, we open the black box of … mergers in a theoretical model where oligopolistic firms employ a flexible manufacturing technology and allocate assets … greater activity in foreign markets. Using detailed Danish register data, we document novel facts regarding mergers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013194397
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Multiproduct mergers and the product mix in domestic and foreign markets
Chan, Jackie M.L.; Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of mergers on the product mix of multiproduct firms. Thus, we open the black box of … mergers in a theoretical model where oligopolistic firms employ a flexible manufacturing technology and allocate assets … greater activity in foreign markets. Using detailed Danish register data, we document novel facts regarding mergers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186438
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Strategic sourcing and wage bargaining
Sly, Nicholas; Soderbery, Anson - In: Journal of development economics 109 (2014), pp. 172-187
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Strategic sourcing and wage bargaining
Sly, Nicholas; Soderbery, Anson - In: Journal of Development Economics 109 (2014) C, pp. 172-187
We examine how multinational firms strategically source production to mitigate the consequences of wage bargaining with workers. When wage bargaining pressure differs across countries, firms allocate production of goods with high markups toward countries with relatively competitive labor...
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Detection of Anticompetitive Horizontal Mergers
Hüschelrath, Kai - 2008
The paper develops a four-step framework to detect anticompetitive horizontal mergers. In the first step, an estimate …
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