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Trade Openness, Market Competition, and Inflation: Some Sectoral Evidence from OECD Countries
Binici, Mahir; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon S. - CESifo - 2011
This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after … controlling for productivity effects. Indeed, when market competition and productivity effects are both accounted for, trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391719
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The Power to Pass on Taxes - A Test for Tax Shifting Based on Observables
Jametti, Mario; Redonda, Agustin; Sen, Anindya - CESifo - 2013
, hence the assumption of perfect competition when considering tax incidence might be misleading. Theoretically, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667419
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The Impact of Entry Regulation on Total Welfare: A Policy Experiment
Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph; Zulehner, Christine - CESifo - 2013
This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010670793
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Optimal Tariffs and Subsidies And Changes in Markets Structure
Egli, Dominik; Westermann, Frank - CESifo - 2000
We present a unified treatment of optimal trade policy for a small country. The well-known results for duopoly and competitive markets emerge as benchmark cases of our model. In addition, we show that changes in market structure have non-monotonic effects on optimal tariffs. Our results suggest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765663
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Profitable Horizontal Mergers without Cost Advantages: The Role of Internal Organization, Information, and Market Structure
Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - CESifo - 2001
Merged firms are typically rather complex organizations. Accordingly, merger has a more profound effect on the structure of a market than simply reducing the number of competitors. We show that this may render horizontal mergers profitable and welfare-improving even if costs are linear. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765715
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Market Structure, Technological Gap and Vertical Linkage Effects from Foreign Direct Investment
Kadochnikov, Sergey M.; Drapkin, Igor M. - CESifo - 2008
pure monopoly. We extend this model by examining cases of perfect competition and a vertically integrated domestic company … larger are the backward linkage effects. They reach their maximum under perfect competition in the intermediate goods market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766265
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International Trade and Retailing
Eckel, Carsten - CESifo - 2009
The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051532
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Market Structure, Technology Spillovers, and Persistence in Productivity Differentials
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - CESifo - 2001
Using data from 11 main manufacturing industries in 17 OECD countries, this paper empirically investigates the determinants of cross-country differences in the persistence of productivity differentials Specifically, we focus on the effects of product market structure and technology diffusion. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406322
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Cross-Country Relative Price Volatility: Effects of Market Structure
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Fujii, Eiji - CESifo - 2005
standard markup pricing model, reductions in market competition, along with increased nominal exchange rate volatility, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416486