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Südekum, Jens - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 43 (2010) 1, pp. 204-231

block foreign takeover of domestic firms and increase its incentive to allow mergers among national firms. This creation of …

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Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy

Südekum, Jens - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 164 (2008) 3, pp. 477-508

. Mergers can be used to appropriate rents on consumptive third markets, even when the trade policy of these countries reacts … endogenously. Competition policy inside the bloc of the two producing countries is too permissive towards mergers and acquisitions …. A policy of cross-border mergers (European champions) need not imply a conflict between regional and global welfare. In …

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Chapter 33 Culture in International Trade

Acheson, Keith; Maule, Christopher - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 1141-1182). 2006

Cultural allegiances whether inherited, imposed or chosen, affect economic activity. Many of these cultural layers – ethnic background, religion, language, ideological orientation, and artistic interests – spill over national boundaries. Cultural ideas travel the world along many routes from...

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Strategic R&D policy in a quality-differentiated industry with three exporting countries

Jinji, Naoto; Toshimitsu, Tsuyoshi - In: Japan and the World Economy 28 (2013) C, pp. 132-142

We examine strategic research and development (R&D) policy for quality-differentiated products in a third-market trade model. We extend the previous work by adding a third exporting country, so that the market structure is international triopoly. We show that the presence of the third exporting...

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Learning by Doing, Precommitment and Infant-Industry Protection

Leahy, Dermot; Neary, J Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper examines the implications for strategic trade policy of different assumptions about precommitment. In a dynamic oligopoly game with learning by doing, the optimal first-period subsidy is lower if firms cannot precommit to future output than if they can; and is lower still if the...

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Home Bias, internationale Preisdifferenzierung und Wirtschaftsintegration

Feuerstein, Switgard - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 222 (2002) 1, pp. 112-131

This paper studies the effects of a further integration of markets that are characterized by intra-industry trade. The analysis is motivated by the observation that product markets of EU countries are more segmented than is usually supposed, which becomes evident e.g. from high differences in...

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International Trade with Competitiveness Effects in R&D

Pires, Garcia; José, Armando - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In an oligopoly trade model where firms engage in R&D, international differences in market size allow for the emergence of endogenous asymmetries between firms. Concretely, firms located in countries with more demand become more competitive because they have strong incentives to perform R&D...

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Who Benefits from Antidumping Legislation?

Schmitt, Nicolas; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

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The Importance of Being Small. Or When Countries are Areas and not Points

Tharakan, Joe; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Market size and transport costs are important ingredients of international trade. We propose to look at these issues from a different perspective. Using a Hotelling duopoly model with quadratic transport costs, we analyse the welfare effects of international trade between two countries that...

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Trade liberalisation between asymmetric countries with environmentally concerned consumers

Gori, Giuseppe Francesco; Lambertini, Luca - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 43 (2013) 4, pp. 549-560

This paper investigates the impact of free trade on welfare in a two-country world modelled as an international Hotelling duopoly with quadratic transport costs and asymmetric countries, where a negative environmental externality is associated with the consumption of the good produced in the...

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