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Use and Abuse of Antidumping by Global Cartels

Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Hoffstadt, Martin - 2021

Antidumping creates opportunities for abuse to stifle market competition. Whether cartels actually abuse trade policy … that matches cartel investigations with trade data at the product level. We then estimate the world import price and … quantity effects of antidumping in cartel products. We find that the use of antidumping in cartel industries helps to maintain …

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Trade, Trees, and Contingent Trade Agreements

Harstad, Bård - 2022

Can trade agreements motivate environmental conservation? I first present a model whereby the government in the South expands its production capacity (e.g., deforest) before trading with the North. After deriving negative relationships between tariff reductions and conservation, I show how all...

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Market Concentration in Europe : Evidence from Antitrust Markets

Affeldt, Pauline; Duso, Tomaso; Gugler, Klaus; … - 2021

many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market …

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The Economics of Platforms : A Theory Guide for Competition Policy

Jullien, Bruno - 2020

We propose an analysis of platform competition based on the academic literature with a view towards competition policy. First, we discuss to which extent competition can emerge in digital markets and show which forms it can take. In particular, we underline the role of dynamics, but also of...

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Merger Policy and Tax Competition

Haufler, Andreas; Schulte, Christian - 2021

In many situations governments have sector-specific tax and regulation policies at their disposal to influence the market outcome after a national or an international merger has taken place. In this paper we study the implications for merger policy when countries non-cooperatively deploy...

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The Sociology of Cartels

Haucap, Justus; Heldman, Christina - 2022

Traditional economic theory of collusion assumed that cartels are inherently unstable, and yet some manage to operate …

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Virtual capacity and competition

Schultz, Christian - 2005

In several European merger cases competition authorities have demanded that the merging firm auctions off virtual capacity. The buyer of virtual capacity receives an option on an amount of output at a pre-specified price, typically equal to marginal cost. This output is sold in the market in...

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Switching from Worldwide to Territorial Taxation : Empirical Evidence of FDI Effects

Buettner, Thiess - 2019

This paper explores empirically whether and how FDI is affected if multinationals’ home countries change taxation of foreign earnings by switching from worldwide to territorial taxation. Our analysis employs data for German inbound FDI based on the ultimate investing country concept. We use a...

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Carbon Prices are Redundant in the 2030 EU Climate and Energy Policy Package

Aune, Finn Roar - 2019

In June 2018, an agreement between key EU institutions – the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council – was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a comprehensive assessment of the EU package, with its...

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International Food Commodity Prices and Missing (Dis)Inflation in the Euro Area

Peersman, Gert - 2019

This paper examines the causal effects of shifts in international food commodity prices on euro area inflation dynamics using a structural VAR model that is identified with an external instrument (i.e. a series of global harvest shocks). The results reveal that exogenous food commodity price...

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