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This paper highlights the potential for joint OECD (or non-OPEC) carbon taxes to reduce OPEC's monopoly rent and … the supplier's price of oil, thus decreasing non-OPEC countrie's oil demand, and transferring OPEC monopoly rent to non … taxes reduce global emissions, but the effect is small. -- carbon taxes ; OECD ; monopoly rent …
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In this paper we model the case of an international non-renewable resource monopolist as a dynamic game between a monopolist and n importing countries governments, and we investigate whether a tariff on resource imports can be advantageous for the consumers of the importing countries when the...
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incentive for monopoly rent extraction. Personalist dictatorships, we posit, provide an attractive institutional environment for …
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outcomes. The natural explanation is that Dutch dentists extract a monopoly rent, which we attribute to the limited supply of …
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natural entry barriers, thereby leading to market concentration and opportunities for monopoly rent extraction. High rents, in …
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We investigate the sources, scope, and implications of landowner market power. We show how zoning regulations generate spillovers through increased markups and derive conditions under which restricting landownership concentration reduces rents. Using newbuilding-level data from New York City, we...
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are major events, potentially reshaping competition among industry rivals. Despite their seeming importance, the existing literature reports only a limited impact of M&As on the competitive environment. Our paper revisits this issue using a novel approach that...
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We investigate the sources, scope, and implications of landowner market power. We show how zoning regulations generate spillovers through increased markups and derive conditions under which restricting landownership concentration reduces rents. Using newbuilding-level data from New York City, we...
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shown that the importing countries cannot use a tariff to capture monopoly rents if they are constrained to use open …
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The empirical literature on occupational licensing finds standard monopoly effects of entry regulations: Less …
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