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 …

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 …

Comparing welfare and profit in quantity and price competition within Stackelberg mixed duopolies

K Hirose, T Matsumura - Journal of Economics, 2019 - Springer
We compare welfare and profits under price and quantity competition in Stackelberg mixed
duopolies. Under public leadership, price competition always yields greater profits and …

Wage inequality and welfare in developing countries: Privatization and reforms in the short and long run

CC Chao, M Nabin, X Nguyen, PM Sgro - International Review of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The impacts of privatization on wage inequality and welfare are considered for developing
countries. In the short run, privatization can narrow wage inequality but reduce output of …

Pricing strategies and partial privatization policy

A Kawasaki - Review of Industrial Organization, 2023 - Springer
This study examines whether discriminatory or uniform pricing is socially preferable in the
context of introducing partial privatization: where a firm has a mixture of public and private …

Foreign-owned firms and partial privatization of state holding corporations

JC Bárcena-Ruiz, Q Dong, LFS Wang - The Japanese Economic Review, 2020 - Springer
We consider a state holding corporation with two plants producing heterogeneous goods. In
the partially foreign-owned private sector, firms may be organized as uniplant or multiplant …

The relationship between privatization and corporate taxation policies

Y Liu, T Matsumura, C Zeng - Journal of Economics, 2021 - Springer
We investigate how the corporate (profit) tax rate affects the optimal degree of privatization in
a mixed duopoly with a minimal profit constraint for the private firm. We show that the profit …

Foreign ownership, privatization and subsidization with shadow cost of public funds

D Chen, LFS Wang, J Lee - The North American Journal of Economics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We examine how the shadow cost of public funds will affect the privatization policy in the
presence of strategic tax/subsidy policies in a mixed oligopoly model with foreign ownership …

Government-leading welfare-improving collusion

J Haraguchi, T Matsumura - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2018 - Elsevier
We discuss government-leading welfare-improving collusion in a mixed duopoly. We
formulate an infinitely repeated game in which a welfare-maximizing firm and a profit …

Optimal partial privatization in an endogenous timing game: a mixed oligopoly approach

A Kawasaki, T Ohkawa, M Okamura - Journal of Economics, 2022 - Springer
This study examines endogenous determinations of both the degree of partial privatization
and the timing of quantity competition under a homogeneous product duopoly with a public …