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Strategic investment and international outsourcing in unionised oligopoly

Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 2, pp. 260-269

We develop an oligopoly model in which firms facing unionised domestic labour markets choose between producing an intermediate good in-house and outsourcing it to a non-unionised foreign supplier that makes a relationship-specific investment in developing the intermediate. The paper sheds light...

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How Disagreement about Social Costs leads to Inefficient Energy Productivity Investment

Voß, Achim - Institut für Siedlungs- und Wohnungswesen, …

Public energy productivity investment influences the amount of future energy consumption. If a present government expects its successor to value the social costs of fuel usage dierently, this adds a trategic component to its investment considerations. We analyze this governmental...

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Strategic Investment and International Outsourcing In Unionised Oligopoly

Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …

We develop an oligopoly model in which firms facing unionised domestic labour markets choose between producing an intermediate good in-house and outsourcing it to a nonunionised foreign supplier that makes a relationship-specific investment in developing the intermediate. The paper sheds light...

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THE STRATEGIC INVESTMENT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN IMPROVING THE STOCK PROFITABILITY

Mohammad, ZADEH Amir; Ebrahim, ABBASI - In: Studies in Business and Economics 9 (2014) 2, pp. 135-150

Corporate governance is one of the most important issues to which has been paid attention by big companies due to the massive financial scandals of recent years. Corporate governance includes supervising the company management, separating the economic units from its ownership and protecting...

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Strategic Investment and Trade in an Oligopolistic Setting

ALEXA, Ioana Veronica; TOMA, Simona Valeria; SARPE, … - In: Economics and Applied Informatics (2013) 2, pp. 5-10

This paper analyses the international trade dynamics between two countries as a two-player, non-zero sum, cooperative game. The reason behind this type of approach is that we consider game theory as an important instrument for the analysis of international trade dynamics. The model that we...

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Russia’s investment position in Romania

Arjoca, Diana - In: Romanian Economic Journal 15 (2012) 46bis, pp. 155-168

The relationship between Russia and Romania is very interesting and by analyzing its economical, geopolitical, historical and cultural components one may understand why Russia has a strategic interest in Romania’s key industries like the energy and steel sectors. This paper aims to find some...

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Strategic location behaviour: Temporal and spatial proximity in situation of agglomeration effects

Mayer, Thierry; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 1996

We address the question of competition within the location choices of firms. In a framework of agglomeration effects …, both spatial and temporal dimensions of the firms' decisions are studied. We show that the competition consequences of … tend to demonstrate that the relation between competition strength and spatial differentiation remains pertinent in a …

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Strategic investment, forward markets and competition

Aichele, Markus - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2014

market (medium term investment), competition becomes fierce. Thus, the efficiency gains from forward trading found by Allaz … investment), competition becomes rather weak. When investment matters, from a welfare point of view the desirability of forward …

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How disagreement about social costs leads to inefficient energy productivity investment

Voß, Achim - Centrum für angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2013

Public energy productivity investment influences the amount of future energy consumption. If a present government expects its successor to value the social costs of fuel usage differently, this adds a strategic component to its investment considerations. We analyze this governmental...

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STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AND INTERNATIONAL OUTSOURCING IN UNIONISED OLIGOPOLY

Leahy, Dermot; Montagna, Catia - Department of Economics Studies, University of Dundee - 2010

We critically consider the conventional belief that the attractiveness of international outsourcing lies in cheaper labour costs overseas and that it offers a means to ‘escape’ the power of unions. We develop an oligopoly model in which firms facing unionised domestic labour market choose...

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