We study the pass-through of indirect taxes on beer prices in the European Union (EU). Exploiting the variation of … value added tax rates, beer excise tax rates, and beer prices in a panel of monthly data from 1996 to 2016 of all current 28 … EU member states, we estimate the tax pass-through of specific beer excise taxes and ad valorem value added taxes (VAT …

We consider a dynamic oligopoly on the beer market and study the differential effects of switching costs on product … costs across customer income segments and beer brands. Our supply estimation results show that the low-quality firm …

-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin evident in the EDD … estimate a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters …

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …

their profitability in different countries and products, but learn it as they start to export. As a consequence, exporters …, we find empirical support consistent with such a mechanism, where firms learn from their initial export experiences and …

depth of trade agreements matters for the export performance of firms. Moving from shallow to deep trade agreements boosts …

between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology … and sheds light on the effects of productivity growth. On the basis of a Geometric Brownian motion, three different … productivity scenarios are considered (no growth, deterministic growth, uncertain growth) and opposed to each other. The …

' management competency is associated with a 7.5 percent improvement in sales productivity and a 29.2 increase in profitability … convenience of accessing a larger export market in the South. The gap persists even after controlling for known sources of …

aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the … growth of large services firms in the densest urban areas, boosting services productivity and services exports, but also land …