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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

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

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

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