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International Trade and Retailing
Eckel, Carsten - CESifo - 2009
account. I present a new model of retailing in general equilibrium and explore its implications for a number of different … shocks. The results demonstrate that retail assortments may remain constant if consumers have a low preference for diversity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051532
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Imports, Pass-Through, and the Structure of Retail Markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - CESifo - 2009
large when market structure effects are taken into account, and that restrictions on retailing may have significant effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596602
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Capacity Constraining Labor Market Frictions in a Global Economy
Holzner, Christian; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2011
Convex vacancy creation costs shape firms’ responses to trade liberalization. They induce capacity constraints by increasing firms’ cost of production, leading a profit maximizing firm not to fully meet the increased foreign demand. Hence, firms will only serve a few export markets. More...
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Market Entry Regulation and International Competition
Upmann, Thorsten; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2003
As a part of their industry or competition policies governments decide whether to allow for free market entry of firms or to regulate market access. We analyze a model where governments (ab)use these policy decisions for strategic reasons in an international setting. Multiple equilibria of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196323
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Unemployment in an Interdependent World
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2009
We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our single-sector perspective pays special attention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583684
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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products: A Firm-level Analysis
Arkolakis, Costas; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2010
We use a panel of Brazilian exporters, their products, and destination markets to document a set of regularities for multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm’s exports in a market, (ii) the distribution of exporter scope (the number of products per...
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Buyer Power in International Markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - CESifo - 2009
This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013951
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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - CESifo - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in … shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting … concentration is best explained by technological change in retailing. We also identify a novel benefit from market integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150657
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An Empirical Study of Pricing Strategies in an Online Market with High-Frequency Price Information
Ellison, Sara; Snyder, Christopher M. - CESifo - 2014
We study competition among a score of firms participating in an online market for a commodity computer component. Firms were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first), with better ranks contributing to firms’ sales....
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Comparative Advantage and Skill-Specific Unemployment
Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2009
We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment effects of trade liberalization. We show that the...
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