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Competition, External Economies of Scale, and Unionized Wage (2021)
Journal Article
Basak, D., & Mukherjee, A. (2021). Competition, External Economies of Scale, and Unionized Wage. Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 21(4), 585-592. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10842-021-00369-1

We provide a rationale for the mixed relationship between product market competition and unionized wage, and more importantly, for a generally unexplained empirical evidence of a positive relationship between product market competition and unionized... Read More about Competition, External Economies of Scale, and Unionized Wage.

Price competition and the effects of labour union on innovation (2021)
Journal Article
Basak, D. (2021). Price competition and the effects of labour union on innovation. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 177(3), 337-358. https://doi.org/10.1628/jite-2021-0009

In contrast to the conventional belief that labour union intervention reduces firms' incentives to innovate, I show that this view may not hold true when the firms compete in prices. I find that the presence of labour union may increase firms' incent... Read More about Price competition and the effects of labour union on innovation.

Social efficiency of entry: implications of network externalities (2021)
Journal Article
Basak, D., & Petrakis, E. (2021). Social efficiency of entry: implications of network externalities. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 30(4), 820-829. https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12431

We examine the welfare effects of entry in the presence of network externalities. We show that if network goods are fully incompatible, entry is socially insufficient as long as the entry cost is high, the goods are sufficiently differentiated, and t... Read More about Social efficiency of entry: implications of network externalities.