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Integrated Versus Segmented Markets : Implications for Export Pricing and Welfare

Becker, Raphael; Nigai, Sergey; Seidel, Tobias - 2021

This paper challenges the common assumption of market segmentation in international trade. To analyze export entry and pricing decisions of firms in integrated vs. segmented markets, we develop a novel tractable approach based on stochastic export costs that allows us to compare firm-level and...

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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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International Trade and Stable Resolutions of Resource Disputes

Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2022

We consider a dynamic setting in which two sovereign states with overlapping ownership claims on a resource/asset ﬁrst arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute violently through war or peacefully through settlement. Both approaches depend on the states’ military capacities, but...

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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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Vat Compliance, Trade, and Institutions

Morrow, Peter - 2019

We develop a simple structural model of value added tax (VAT) compliance, and estimate it using widely available national accounts data to learn about compliance in countries where little is currently known. International border controls improve VAT compliance, generating a correlation between...

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The Euro Crisis and Economic Growth : A Novel Counterfactual Approach

Terzi, Alessio - 2019

Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone crisis countries (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Cyprus, Spain)...

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Smart Hedging against Carbon Leakage

Böhringer, Christoph - 2019

Policy makers in the EU and elsewhere are concerned that unilateral carbon pricing induces carbon leakage through relocation of emission-intensive and trade-exposed industries to other regions. A common measure to mitigate such leakage is to combine an emission trading system (ETS) with...

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