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Baake, Pio; Huck, Steffen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect domestic food prices. Our first results is that export...

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Cartel Stability and Economic Integration

Schröder, Philipp J. H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

understanding about staying out of each other's markets. The paper distinguishes among different types of trade costs: ad valorem …, unit, fixed. It is shown that for a sufficient reduction of ad valorem trade costs, a cartel supported by collusion on … unit (fixed) trade costs a price setting cartel is strengthened (unaffected), while a quantity setting one is weakened. …

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Declining Output Volatility in Germany: Impulses, Propagation, and the Role of Monetary Policy

Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

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Europe's Twenties: A Study Using the WIATEC Model

Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans; Truong, Truong - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Europe's 20-20-20 climate policy. The results show that the economic costs of implementing the policy are only moderate and …

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The Impact of a Customs Union between Turkey and the EU on Turkey's Exports to the EU

Danzinger, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann; Herzer, Dierk; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

protection, and transport costs in the export trade between Turkey and the EU. The empirical model used is an extended version of …

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Trade and the Environment: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity

Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalisation on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced not only by the long-established scale effect, but also by a reallocation effect resulting from an...

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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

integration. The 'new economic geography' world assumes mobile entrepreneurs which can relocate thus bringing agglomeration forces …

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Tariffs and Firm-Level Heterogeneous Fixed Export Costs

Jorgensen, Jan G.; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

the simplest specifications possible, namely a symmetric two-country intra-industry trade model with fixed export costs …

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R&D and Price Elasticity of Demand

Lucke, Dorothea; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Schumacher, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This note explores the relationship between the price elasticity of demand and the R&D intensity of the product. We introduce the concept of R&D intensity into a standard Dixit-Stiglitz/Krugman-type setting. R&D activity is treated as a fixed cost of production. Within this framework, sectors...

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A Simple, Analytically Solvable, Chamberlinian Agglomeration Model

Pflüger, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper presents a simple Chamberlinian agglomeration model which, like the canonical core-periphery (CP) model, contains two agglomerative forces. However, in contrast to that model, the present model is analytically solvable. Moreover, the present model exhibits a 'supercritical pitchfork...

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