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Environmental policies with consumer-friendly firms and cross-ownership
(Elsevier, 2021-10)
This paper analyzes what environmental policy is implemented by governments when there is cross-ownership between polluting firms that care about social concerns. We compare the equilibrium outcomes under environmental ...
Environmental corporate social responsibility, R&D and disclosure of “green” innovation knowledge
(Elsevier, 2023-04)
The literature on the environment has analyzed how firms carry out R&D to reduce their pollutant emissions, assuming that they maximize profits. However, empirical evidence shows that firms are increasingly concerned about ...
International trade and environmental corporate social responsibility
(Elsevier, 2022-11)
This paper analyzes firms' incentives to engage in environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) in an international market under imperfect competition. We find that in the absence of environmental taxes firms do ...
Mergers between local public firms
(Elsevier, 2018-10-19)
[EN]We consider a country made up of two regions, where each region owns a local public firm and a
domestic private one. A national authority decides whether or not to merge the two local public
firms. The result depends ...
Partial Privatization of State Holding Corporations
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2017-09-14)
[EN]We consider a state holding corporation with two plants that may produce complementary or substitute goods and that competes with one or two private firms. We find that the government partially privatizes the two plants ...
Intellectual property rights and North-South trade: exports vs. foreign direct investment
(Universidad de Chile, 2022-12)
This paper examines whether a Northern firm prefers to export or to engage in FDI to serve the South. If the firm engages in FDI, its technology is imitated, and a Southern firm enters the market that may sell in both ...
Environmental policy Instruments and ownership of firms
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2022-06-21)
[EN]We assume an economy comprising two countries, with one polluting firm located in each country and transboundary spillovers. Each government may implement an environmental tax or an emission standard to control pollutant ...
Partial privatization in an international mixed oligopoly under product differentiation
(Springer-Verlag, 2020-05-16)
[EN]We consider an international mixed market that comprises two countries, each of
which owns one public firm and one private firm. As a benchmark case, we consider
a single country that owns all four firms. In both ...
Disclosure of R&D knowledge in a mixed duopoly
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2020-01-03)
[EN]In this paper, we analyze whether firms want to disclose their R&D knowledge for free in a mixed duopoly. We extend the paper by Poyago-Theotoky (1999) on strategic R&D with endogenous spillovers by considering a mixed ...
Privatisation and Vertical Integration under a Mixed Duopoly
(Elsevier, 2018-08-17)
[EN] This paper analyses the privatisation of public firms when private firms may be vertically in-
tegrated with their suppliers. We consider a mixed duopoly with a vertically integrated public
firm. The private firm ...