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

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 tariffs are strategic complements and that for poor harvests equilibrium … tariffs can explode (shedding some light on recent volatility in world food prices). We also show that the strategic interplay …

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Indenture as a Self-Enforced Contract Device: An Experimental Test

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We experimentally test the efficacy of indenture as a self-enforced contract device. In an indenture game, the principal signals the intention of payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent half of it as "prepayment"; the agent receives the completing half after delivering...

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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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

In this paper, we use a computable general equilibrium model (WIATEC) to study the potential impact of implementing Europe's 20-20-20 climate policy. The results show that the economic costs of implementing the policy are only moderate and within the range of recent empirical evidence....

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Market Structure and the Taxation of International Trade

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

The paper compares non-cooperative commodity taxation under the destination and origin principles under a variety of different assumptions about market structure. We consider a model of international duopoly with either quantity or price competition of firms and either segmented or integrated...

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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

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

This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an exogenous differential in wage and social policies on the location of industry. Two model scenarios are considered. In the traditional one with physical capital, such a...

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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

that are heterogeneous across firms, we find that the reciprocal reduction of small tariffs reduces welfare. …

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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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International Commodity Taxation under Monopolistic Competition

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

We analyze non-cooperative commodity taxation in a two-country trade model characterized by monopolistic competition and international firm and capital mobility. In this setting, taxes in one country affect foreign welfare through the relocation of mobile firms and through changes in the rents...

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