Corporate social responsibility and privatization policy in a mixed oligopoly

SL Kim, SH Lee, T Matsumura - Journal of Economics, 2019 - Springer
This article formulates a mixed oligopoly in which a public firm competes with two private
firms that may adopt corporate social responsibility (CSR). We then determine the optimal …

Emission tax and optimal privatization in Cournot–Bertrand comparison

L Xu, S Cho, SH Lee - Economic Modelling, 2016 - Elsevier
We compare a Cournot with a Bertrand duopoly in a differentiated mixed market when both
emission tax and privatization policies are used together. We find that the optimal emission …

[HTML][HTML] Partial privatization and the degree of corporate social responsibility of private investors

JC Bárcena-Ruiz, MB Garzón, A Sagasta - Economic Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
A significant issue for study is what type of private investor governments should sell public
firms to: those who care about corporate social responsibility (CSR) or those who are profit …

Welfare-reducing price competition under relative performance delegation with convex costs

L Xu, T Matsumura - Economic Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
Price competition is thought to be more intense than quantity competition in oligopolies. By
introducing strategic delegation contracts, this study challenges this belief. We consider …

Vertical product differentiation, managerial delegation and social welfare in a vertically-related market

X Wang, LFS Wang - Mathematical Social Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we analyze the influence of the delegation of downstream firms that produce
different quality of products on the profits, consumer surplus and social welfare in a vertically …

Privatization and efficiency: a mixed oligopoly approach

TL Chen - Journal of Economics, 2017 - Springer
While models of mixed oligopoly have been analyzed within a rapidly growing literature,
little is known about the mechanism of efficiency improvement relating to partial privatization …

Ex-ante versus ex-post privatization policies with foreign penetration in free-entry mixed markets

L Xu, SH Lee, T Matsumura - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2017 - Elsevier
This study investigates the impact of the timing of privatization and liberalization policies on
the degree of privatization and number of entering firms in free-entry mixed markets. We …

R&D spillovers, output subsidies, and privatization in a mixed duopoly: Flexible versus irreversible R&D investments

J Chen, SH Lee, TK Muminov - Bulletin of Economic Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines firms' decisions on cost‐reducing research and development (R&D)
along with the government's output subsidy policy with research spillovers. We investigate …

Mixed oligopoly, cost-reducing research and development, and privatisation

MJ Gil-Moltó, J Poyago-Theotoky… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
We develop a mixed oligopoly model to examine the role of R&D subsidies and evaluate the
welfare effects of privatisation. In solving the oligopoly model we propose a novel use of …

R&D Information sharing in a mixed duopoly and incentive subsidy for research joint venture competition

SH Lee, TK Muminov - Bulletin of Economic Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the incentives for R&D (research and development) information
sharing in a mixed duopoly and finds a contrasting result that public firm chooses full sharing …