In this paper we analyze the private and public incentives towards skill acquisition when the skill level of workers determines the quality level of goods, and both labor and product markets are non competitive. We delve into the mechanisms that determine the equilibrium skill acquisition...

Unionized Oligoplies are market structures with incomplete upstream labour markets interacting with incomplete downstream product markets. In this survey I give and overview of the recent development any main findings of this strand of literature

In a union-duopoly strategic context, we explore the endogenous determination and the effects of the unionization structure in a market facing the possibility of inward foreign direct investments (FDI). We focus our analysis on the role of the reservation wages in home and foreign market and...

I model the strategic interaction between firms, that face decisions on investment, forward contracts and spot market quantities. For an investment decision that takes place after firms have contracted forward but before firms compete on the spot market (medium term investment), competition...