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Economics
Corporate Social Responsibility and Reaction Functions of Labor-Managed Firms with Lifetime Employment as Strategic Commitment

Kazuhiro Ohnishi

Volume 9, Issue 8 , August 2022, , Pages 542-549

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7028374

Abstract
  This paper examines an oligopoly game model with a concave demand function where labor-managed firms compete in quantities with each other. There is no possibility of entry or exit. The timing of the game is as follows. In the first stage, each labor-managed firm simultaneously and independently chooses ...  Read More

The Decision Whether to Hire Managers in a Mixed Duopoly with State-Owned and Labor-Managed Firms

Kazuhiro Ohnishi

Volume 7, Issue 3 , March 2020, , Pages 167-172

Abstract
  This paper considers a mixed duopoly model in which a state-owned firm competes with a labor-managed firm. The timing of this game is as follows. In the first stage, each firm decides whether or not to hire a manager. In the second stage, the firms that hired managers select incentive parameters for ...  Read More

Unilateral Decisions to Hire Managers in Markets with Capitalist and Labor-Managed Firms

Kazuhiro Ohnishi

Volume 5, Issue 4 , April 2018, , Pages 190-196

Abstract
  This paper examines the equilibrium outcomes of firms’ decision games to hire managers when there is a capitalist firm competing against a labor-managed firm. The paper shows that if only the capitalist firm hires a manager, then the equilibrium coincides with the solution when neither firm hires ...  Read More

Quantity Precommitment and Cournot and Bertrand Models with Complementary Goods

Kazuhiro Ohnishi

Volume 4, Issue 1 , January 2017, , Pages 17-29

Abstract
  This paper investigates Cournot and Bertrand duopoly models with complementary goods, where firms can enter into lifetime employment contracts with their respective workers as a strategic device. The paper treats the following four cases: ‘Cournot competition with strategic complements’, ...  Read More