Publications - Nicola Meccheri

1) In peer-reviewed journals

Environmental taxes versus subsidies with unionized labor markets. A note on the role of wage setting structure (with C. Vergari), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 25(4), 2025. [PDF]
Unionised dockworkers and port ownership structure in an international oligopoly, Economics of Transportation, 40, 2024. [PDF]
Management centrality in sequential bargaining: Implications for strategic delegation, welfare, and stakeholder conflict (with D. Buccella), The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 24(1), 2024. [PDF]
On the social desirability of centralized wage setting when firms are run by biased managers, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 23(3), 2023. [PDF]
Biased managers in vertically related markets, Managerial and Decision Economics, 42(3), 2021. [PDF]
Endogenous timing of managerial delegation contracts in a unionized duopoly (with L. Fanti), Managerial and Decision Economics, 40(7), 2019. [PDF]
Should managerial delegation contracts be made before or after union wage setting? A game-theoretic analysis (with L. Fanti), Managerial and Decision Economics, 39(1), 2018. [PDF]
A note on endogenous competition mode with managerial-unionized firms (with L. Fanti), Metroeconomica, 69(1), 2018. [PDF]
Unionization regimes, capacity choice by firms and welfare outcomes (with L. Fanti), The Manchester School, 85(6), 2017. [PDF]
A note on managerial delegation with asymmetric and convex costs (with L. Fanti), Managerial and Decision Economics, 38(3), 2017. [PDF]
Non-rigid wages and merger profitability reversal under convex costs and centralised unionisation (with L. Fanti), Bulletin of Economic Research, 68(4), 2016. [PDF]
On the Cournot-Bertrand profit differential and the structure of unionisation in a managerial duopoly (with L. Fanti), Australian Economic Papers, 54(4), 2015. [PDF]
Profits and competition under alternative technologies in a unionized duopoly with product differentiation (with L. Fanti), Research in Economics, 68(2), 2014. [PDF]
Informal incentive labour contracts and product market competition (with L. Fanti), Journal of Economics, 111(2), 2014. [PDF]
Managerial delegation contracts under centralized unionization (with L. Fanti), Managerial and Decision Economics, 35(1), 2014. [PDF]
Managerial delegation under alternative unionization structures (with L. Fanti), LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 27(1), 2013. [PDF]
Labour incentive schemes, effort, and market outcomes in a differentiated duopoly with simple institutional constraints (with L. Fanti), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 168(2), 2012. [PDF]
Labour decreasing returns, industry-wide union and Cournot-Bertrand profit ranking. A note (with L. Fanti), Economics Bulletin, 32(1), 2012. [PDF]
From wage rigidity to labour market institution rigidity : A turning-point in explaining unemployment? (with M. Guerrazzi), Journal of Socio-Economics, 41(2), 2012. [PDF]
Power, Law and Economics, and institutions [review article di Understanding Power, M. Vatiero], History of Economic Ideas, 19(2), 2011. [PDF]
Competition, efficiency and market structure in online digital markets. An overview and policy implications (with C. Cambini, V. Silvestri), European Review of Industrial Economics and Policy (ERIEP), 2, 2011. [PDF]
The Cournot-Bertrand profit differential in a differentiated duopoly with unions and labour decreasing returns (with L. Fanti), Economics Bulletin, 31(1), 2011. [PDF]
Transitions out of unemployment: The role of social networks’ topology and firms’ recruitment strategies (with A.M. Lavezzi), Metroeconomica, 62(1), 2011. [PDF]
Incentive-based and knowledge-based theories of the firm: Some recent developments (with M. Morroni), Economia e Politica Industriale–Journal of Industrial and Business Economics , 37(3), 2010. [PDF]
Large breach penalties and managers’ incentives to invest inside or outside firms, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 165(4), 2009. [PDF]
A note on noncompetes, bargaining and training by firms, Economics Letters, 102(3), 2009. [PDF]
Wage behaviour and unemployment in Keynes’ and New Keynesians’ views. A comparison, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 14(4), 2007. [PDF]
Rural entrepreneurs and institutional assistance: An empirical study from mountainous Italy (with G. Pelloni), Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 18(5), 2006. [PDF]
Employment with alternative incentive schemes when effort is not verifiable, LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 19(1), 2005. [PDF]
Business growth and development trajectories in lagging and remote areas of southern Europe (with D. Skuras, M.B. Moreira, J. Rosell, S. Stathopoulou), European Urban and Regional Studies, 12(4), 2005. [PDF]
Entrepreneurial human capital accumulation and the growth of rural businesses: A four-country survey in mountainous and lagging areas of the European Union (with D. Skuras, M.B. Moreira, J. Rosell, S. Stathopoulou), Journal of Rural Studies, 21(1), 2005. [PDF]
Institutional support to strategic business orientations: An empirical analysis of rural businesses in four countries of southern Europe (with D. Skuras, J.C. Caldas, D. Psaltopoulos, L. Viladomiu), European Business Review, 15(4), 2003. [PDF]

In Italian:

Concorrenza ed efficienza nel mercato del commercio elettronico (with C. Cambini), L’Industria, 4, 2009. [Abstract in English]
Schemi di prezzo per Internet: accesso alla rete e pubblicità sui motori di ricerca, L’Industria, 4, 2009. [Abstract in English]
Specificità e problemi applicativi delle retribuzioni incentivanti collegate alla performance nel pubblico impiego: un’analisi economica, Politica Economica, 2, 2004. [Abstract in English]
Gerarchie e carriere occupazionali nel pubblico impiego: i Ministeri italiani negli anni ’90, Economia Pubblica, 3, 2004. [Abstract in English]
Retribuzioni e gerarchie nella Pubblica amministrazione: il caso dei Ministeri negli anni novanta, Lavoro e Relazioni Industriali, 2, 2002.
La struttura ed il funzionamento del governo e della Pubblica amministrazione come «nexus» di contratti, Economia Politica, 3, 2002. [Abstract in English]
On-the-job training generico dei lavoratori e contrattazione: il ruolo della breach penalty nel contratto iniziale, Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, 1, 2002. [Abstract in English]
Carriere e «tornei» come incentivi nel pubblico impiego: una valutazione teorica alla luce dei recenti sviluppi normativi e contrattuali, Economia Pubblica, 3, 2000. [Abstract in English]

2) In books

When imperfections in labour market meet imperfections in product market: A model with firm-specific monopoly unions and vertical product differentiation (with C. Vergari), in Essays in Honor of Carlo Casarosa, D. Fiaschi, PM. Pacini and L. Spataro (eds.), Pisa University Press, 2024.
The political economy of managerial delegation with unionized labor markets, in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), Springer, 2022.
Centralized unionization, managerial delegation and endogenous market structure (with L. Fanti), in Institutions, Imperfect Markets and Policy, L. Fanti (ed.), Pisa University Press, 2021.
On the effects of firing costs on employment and welfare in a duopoly market with entry (with D.M. Coluccia, S. D’Alessandro), in Oligopoly, Institutions and Firms’ Performance, L. Fanti (ed.), Pisa University Press, 2017.
Endogenous sequence of contracts in managerial unionised duopolies. Welfare analysis and product differentiation (with L. Fanti), in Oligopoly, Institutions and Firms’ Performance, L. Fanti (ed.), Pisa University Press, 2017.
A note on symmetry in job contact networks (with A.M. Lavezzi), in Artificial Markets Modeling, A. Consiglio (ed.), Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer, 2007.
Job contact networks, inequality and aggregate output (with A.M. Lavezzi), in Innovation, Unemployment and Policy in the Theories of Growth and Distribution, N. Salvadori and R. Balducci (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2005.

In Italian:

L’equilibrio economico generale e i teoremi dell’economia del benessere, Cap. 1 di Scienza delle finanze, A. Balestrino, E. Galli e L. Spataro, UTET, 2015.
Perché Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin e Roger Myerson hanno vinto il Premio Nobel 2007 per l’Economia?, in Perché Nobel?, M. Abate (a cura di), Springer-Italia, 2008.
Asimmetrie informative, Cap. 12 di Istituzioni di economia. Vol. 1, R. Signorino, Giappichelli, 2006.
Modelli neo-keynesiani, Cap. 7 di Istituzioni di economia. Vol. 2, R. Signorino, Giappichelli, 2006.