Volume 11 (2024)
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Volume 1 (2014)
Lifetime Employment and Mixed Cournot Duopoly with State-Owned and Joint-Stock Firms

Kazuhiro Ohnishi

Volume 5, Issue 1 , January 2018, , Pages 1-9

Abstract
  This paper examines a mixed duopoly model in which a state-owned firm competes with a joint-stock firm. The following two stages are considered. In the first stage, each firm can simultaneously and independently decide whether or not to offer lifetime employment as a strategic commitment. In the second ...  Read More

Lifetime Employment and a Sequential Choice in a Mixed Duopoly Market with a Joint-Stock Firm

Kazuhiro Ohnishi

Volume 3, Issue 5 , May 2016, , Pages 283-295

Abstract
  This paper examines a three-stage game model in which a joint-stock private firm and a state-owned public firm can sequentially offer lifetime employment before competing in quantities. The game runs as follows. First, the joint-stock private firm decides whether to offer lifetime employment. Second, ...  Read More

Capacity and Reaction Functions of Joint-Stock Firms

Kazuhiro Ohnishi

Volume 3, Issue 3 , March 2016, , Pages 166-173

Abstract
  This paper investigates two-stage competition with two joint-stock firms. In the first stage, each firm independently chooses a level of capacity. In the second stage, each firm independently chooses an output. The paper shows that each firm’s reaction function has a kink at its installed capacity ...  Read More