We consider a monopolistic supplier’s optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed … costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform pricing, the same wholesale tariff is offered to all downstream firms. In … contrast to the extant literature on price discrimination with nonlinear wholesale tariffs, we find that banning discriminatory …

economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of … recent advances in the theory of Industrial Organization and two-sided markets we show that taxing ads may be …

bilateral measure of market access to compare tariffs applied in 1996 and 2006, which includes the timing of the Uruguay Round … and episodes of bilateral liberalization. Our econometric estimations show that the reduced tariffs imposed on emerging …

Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …

as tariffs, can continue to disadvantage foreign firms. We analyze the bidding strategies in such a game and show that … when domestic profits are valued, tariffs will be used to discriminate against foreign firms. Furthermore, we find that … optimal tariffs can be more protectionist than the optimal price preference, resulting in lower expected domestic welfare and …

country and the (developed) rest of the world. Despite labour being the only factor of production in this model, tariffs (in …-voter’s preferred reliance on tariffs versus income taxes in order to effect the desired redistribution. Using data from 44 countries we …

world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, we extend the …