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Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Wall, Howard J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

With outsourcing comes a perceived tension between the competitive pressures faced by domestic firms and the effect that outsourcing has on domestic workers. To address this tension, we present a general-equilibrium model with an oligopolistic export sector and a competitive import-competing...

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Is Tax Shifting Asymmetric? Evidence from French VAT reforms, 1995-2000

Carbonnier, Clément - HAL - 2005

This paper presents evidence from three French VAT reforms showing that tax shifting on prices operates differently upwards and downwards. This may appear as a paradox when reading usual studies on price shifting. This paper puts forward two different asymmetric effects. The first one is linked...

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Who pays commodity taxes? Evidence from French reforms, 1987-1999

Carbonnier, Clément - HAL - 2006

The point of this paper is to measure empirically the distribution of the commodity tax burden between consumers and producers. For that purpose, two French reforms are studied. These reforms are steep decreases of the VAT rate on housing repair services on the one hand, and on new car sales on...

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Positioning strategies in the case of oligopolistic competition: The case of telecommunications industry in Senegal

Ndiaye, Babacar; Thiaw, Cheikh - HAL - 2011

respectively analyzed the standard models of competitive strategies in a duopoly and oligopoly industry. By focusing our analysis …

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Bankruptcy Risk, Product Market Competition and Horizontal Mergers

Franck, Bernard; Pape, Nicolas Le - HAL - 2010

We consider an oligopolistic industry including leveraged firms and unleveraged ones where firms are engaged in a sequential decision-making process. At the first stage of the game, a firm and her bank, considering the demand uncertainty and the distribution probability of the shock, evaluate a...

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On licensing and diffusion of clean technologies in oligopoly

Sibailly, Idrissa - HAL - 2013

Clean technologies implemented by polluters subject to environmental regulation are often developed and patented by specialized technology suppliers. This paper investigates the impact of the environmental regulation stringency on the diffusion of patented clean technologies when the polluters...

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Standardization versus Preference for Variety in Linear Cournot Oligopoly

Deroian, Frédéric; Gannon, Frédéric - HAL - 2007

We consider a Cournot oligopoly setting in which consumers have an intrinsic preference for variety, while unit …

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The Effects of Globalization on Worker Training

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We consider a three-stage game to examine how market integration affects firms’ incentives to provide general worker training. In stage 1, firms invest in productivity-enhancing training. In stage 2, they can make wage offers for each others’ workers. Finally, Cournot competition takes...

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Market power and voluntary land redistribution

Ménager, Lucie; Valente, Christine - HAL - 2011

Inequality in land ownership remains a major issue in many developing countries, such as Brazil, Colombia, and South Africa. Donors advocate a new model of "willing-buyer/willing-seller\", market-led land redistribution, but actual redistribution has fallen short of expectations. Little effort...

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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment

Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and … employees (n = 2288). The results indicate that entrepreneurs perceive themselves as less risk averse than managers and …

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