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Going Deep : The Trade and Welfare Effects of TTIP

Aichele, Rahel - 2015

rest of the world relative to the status quo. However, there is substantial heterogeneity across the 134 geographical …

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The Value of Incumbency in Heterogeneous Platforms

Biglaiser, Gary - 2016

We study the dynamics of competition in a model with network effects, an incumbent and entry. We propose a new way of representing the strategic advantages of incumbency in a static model. We then embed this static analysis in a dynamic framework with heterogeneous consumers. We completely...

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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L. - 2016

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries averaged over the period 2001-2010. Simple correlations show that …

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Market Entry Costs, Underemployment and International Trade

Bougheas, Spiros - 2010

We develop a small, open economy, two-sector model with heterogeneous agents and endogenous participation in a labor matching market. We analyze the implications of asymmetric market entry costs for the patterns of international trade and underemployment. Furthermore, we examine the welfare...

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Do Cost-Sharing and Entry Deregulation Curb Pharmaceutical Innovation?

Grossmann, Volker - 2011

This paper examines the role of both cost-sharing schemes in health insurance systems and entry regulation for pharmaceutical R&D expenditure, drug prices, aggregate productivity, and income. The analysis suggests that both an increase in the coinsurance rate and stricter price regulations...

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas - 2014

In many countries entrepreneurship is promoted through tax reductions for small businesses and by various government support schemes. We analyze the effects of such policies to subsidize small businesses in a setting where both the risk-return characteristics of the selected innovation project...

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Tax Evasion in a Cournot Oligopoly with Endogenous Entry

Goerke, Laszlo - 2017

If an additional competitor reduces output per firm in a homogenous Cournot-oligopoly, market entry will be excessive. Taxes can correct the so-called business stealing externality. We investigate how evading a tax on operating profits affects the excessive entry prediction. Tax evasion raises...

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Market Access through Bound Tariffs

Sala, Davide - 2009

WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs ceilings, i.e. tariff rates that no exporter may ever actually be confronted with, generate market access? The answer to this question relates to the effects of tariff bindings on...

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Vertical Licensing, Input Pricing, and Entry

Bakaouka, Elpiniki - 2017

We explore the incentives of a vertically integrated incumbent firm to license the production technology of its core input to an external firm, transforming the licensee into its input supplier. We find that the incumbent opts for licensing even when licensing also transforms the licensee into...

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Growing Groups, Cooperation, and the Rate of Entry

Ranehill, Eva - 2014

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying rates at which a group grows. Using a laboratory public-good game with voluntary contributions and economies of scale, we construct a situation in which expanding a group's size yields potential efficiency gains, but only if...

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