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The Law of One Price in Scandinavian Duty-Free Stores
Asplund, Marcus; Friberg, Richard - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 4, pp. 1072-1083
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Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters
Mayer, Thierry; Melitz, Marc J.; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 2, pp. 495-536
We build a theoretical model of multi-product firms that highlights how competition across market destinations affects both a firm's exported product range and product mix. We show how tougher competition in an export market induces a firm to skew its export sales toward its best performing...
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Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-Through of Antidumping Duties and Exchange Rates: Comment
Kelly, Brian D. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 3, pp. 1280-82
Blonigen and Haynes (2002) calculated that pass-through of antidumping duty estimates to U.S. pricing of 200% would be … required to eliminate potential antidumping duties. However, this calculation was based on an error in interpretation of U ….S. antidumping practice, that antidumping duties themselves are subtracted in an antidumping calculation. In fact there is no such …
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Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-Through of Antidumping Duties and Exchange Rates: Reply
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Haynes, Stephen E. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 3, pp. 1283-84
antidumping (AD) duties are subtracted from the U.S. price when calculating AD duties in administrative reviews. While this point …
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Tax Competition When Governments Lack Commitment: Excess Capacity as a Countervailing Threat
Janeba, Eckhard - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 5, pp. 1508-1519
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Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?
Foster, Lucia; Haltiwanger, John; Syverson, Chad - In: American Economic Review 98 (2008) 1, pp. 394-425
We investigate the nature of selection and productivity growth in industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately. We show there are important differences between revenue and physical productivity. Because physical productivity is inversely correlated with price while...
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The Geographic Concentration of Industry: Does Natural Advantage Explain Agglomeration?
Glaeser, Edward L.; Ellison, Glenn - In: American Economic Review 89 (1999) 2, pp. 311-316
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Exclusive Dealing and Entry, When Buyers Compete: Comment
Wright, Julian - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 3, pp. 1070-81
In a recent paper, Chiara Fumagalli and Massimo Motta (2006) challenge the idea that an incumbent can foreclose efficient entry in the face of scale economies by using exclusive contracts. They claim that inefficient exclusion does not arise when buyers are homogenous firms that compete...
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Selling to Overconfident Consumers
Grubb, Michael D. - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 5, pp. 1770-1807
Consumers may overestimate the precision of their demand forecasts. This overconfidence creates an incentive for both monopolists and competitive firms to offer tariffs with included quantities at zero marginal cost, followed by steep marginal charges. This matches observed cellular phone...
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Are Consumers Myopic? Evidence from New and Used Car Purchases
Busse, Meghan R.; Knittel, Christopher R.; Zettelmeyer, … - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 1, pp. 220-56
We investigate whether car buyers are myopic about future fuel costs. We estimate the effect of gasoline prices on short-run equilibrium prices of cars of different fuel economies. We then compare the implied changes in willingness-to-pay to the associated changes in expected future gasoline...
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