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标题：Merger Profitability in Unionized Oligopoly
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作者：Kjell Erik Lommerud ; Odd Rune Straume ; Lars Sørgard 等
期刊名称：Discussion Papers / Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
印刷版ISSN：0804-6824
出版年度：2000
出版社：Bergen
摘要：We examine how a merger a.ects wages of unionized labourand, in turn, the profitability of a merger under both Cournotand Bertrand competition. If unions are plant-specific, we findthat a merger is more profitable than in a corresponding modelwith exogenous wages. In contrast to the received literature, wefind that it can be more profitabletotakepartinamergerthanbeing an outsider. For firm-specific unions, on the other hand,results are reversed
关键词：mergerprofitability; trade unions; endogenous wages