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Workers’ firm in mixed duopoly

Flavio Delbono, Diego Lanzi and Carlo Reggiani

Economic Modelling, 2023, vol. 122, issue C

Abstract: Cooperatives, including those owned and run by workers (Workers Firms, WFs), compete with capitalist firms in oligopolistic industries (mixed oligopolies). We rationalize several facts emerging from the empirical research as: The concern of WFs for their employment; the interplay between membership and workplace safeguard within WFs; the different reaction to shocks between WFs and capitalist enterprises. We do so by means of a new model of WFs’ short-run behavior in a mixed duopoly. We innovate in modeling the WF’s objective function by including both profits and employment, and characterize the resulting Nash equilibrium.

Keywords: Workers’ firm; Labor-managed firms; Employment; Oligopoly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L13 L21 P13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106247

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