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What Jobs Do Workers Want? Worker Preferences in Global Value Chains

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What do workers in global value chains (GVCs) consider a good job? Research on work in GVCs largely studies compliance with standards set from the top‐down rather than worker preferences. Understanding worker preferences is crucial because workers are the intended beneficiaries of governance institutions; policies better aligned to their ...
Matthew Amengual, Greg Distelhorst, Alessandro Guasti   +2 more
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Collusion through debt and managers

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate the anticompetitive effects of debt financing and managerial incentives in the presence of managers incurring personal bankruptcy costs. We characterize the strategic value for firms' shareholders of resorting to debt and managerial incentives as complementary devices to sustain collusion among firms, when managerial bankruptcy ...
Raffaele Fiocco, Salvatore Piccolo, Giancarlo Spagnolo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collusion through Joint R&D: An Empirical Assessment [PDF]

This paper tests whether upstream R&D cooperation leads to downstream collusion. We consider an oligopolistic setting where firms enter in research joint ventures (RJVs) to lower production costs or coordinate on collusion in the product market.
Röller, Lars-Hendrik, Seldeslachts, Jo, Duso, Tomaso   +2 more
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Reimagining the White Child as Other: Taika Waititi's Decolonial Play in James and the Giant Peach With Taika and Friends

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how James and the Giant Peach with Taika and Friends (JGPTF) (2020) challenges the colonial logics embedded in Roald Dahl's construction of the universal white child. Through collaborative digital play, humour and Māori relational epistemologies, Taika Waititi unsettles James's position as the normative child of futurity,
Diana Sandars
wiley   +1 more source

On the Stability of Research Joint Ventures: Implications for Collusion [PDF]

Though there is a body of theoretical literature on research joint ventures (RJV) participation facilitating collusion, empirical tests are rare. Even more so, there are few empirical tests on the general theme of collusion.
Seldeslachts, Jo, Duso, Tomaso, Pennings, Enrico   +2 more
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The effects of minimum wage regulation in inter‐regional oligopoly competition

Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine how minimum wage regulation affects firm profit when labor‐market power interacts with product‐market competition. A binding wage floor reduces the regulated firm's marginal labor cost, inducing it to expand production. This expansion can induce rivals to contract production when relevant strategic variables are strategic ...
Noriaki Matsushima, Kazuki Nishikawa, Jiaying Qiu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Millers, Commission Agents and Collusion in Grain Auction Markets: Evidence from Basmati Auctions in North India [PDF]

This paper undertakes structural estimation of asymmetric auction models in a market for basmati, and detects the presence of a cartel consisting of a large (in market share) local miller and commission agents purchasing for large distant millers.
A. BANERJI, J. V. MEENAKSHI
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Collusion under Yardstick Competition: An Experimental Study [PDF]

The effectiveness of relative performance evaluation schemes, such as yardstick competition, can be undermined by collusion.The degree to which the regulated agents manage to collude will be affected by the particulars of the scheme.We hypothesize that ...
Rockenbach, B., Sadrieh, A., Potters, J.J.M., Damme, E.E.C. van   +3 more
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From Coase to culture? Visible Hands Build Equilibria

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay proposes that the classic distinction between firms and markets in Ronald Coase's 1937 paper ‘The nature of the firm’ (Economica, vol. 4, pp. 386–405) be gracefully retired, having been duly celebrated for its field‐launching contribution to organizational economics.
Robert Gibbons
wiley   +1 more source

Success and failure in England's patent system: New evidence from patent applications, 1783–1834

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Our understanding of the relationship between the English patent system and technical change during the industrial revolution is based entirely on the study of successful patents. We address this feature by providing the first study of unsuccessful patent applications in England during the first industrial revolution.
Stephen D. Billington, Joe Lane
wiley   +1 more source