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Tariffs Passing Through Retailers: Do Tariffs Actually Protect Domestic Manufacturers?

Cole, Matthew T.; Eckel, Carsten - CESifo - 2014

Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy are based on theoretical models that assume foreign manufacturers sell directly to consumers. However, recent empirical evidence suggests that wholesalers and retailers play an...

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051532

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 …

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