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Efficiency Enhancing Taxation in Two-Sided Markets
Kind, Hans Jarle - 2008
-valorem taxes. We show that (i) a monopoly may have too high output compared to the social optimum; (ii) output may be reduced by …
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Platform Intermediation in a Market for Differentiated Products
Galeotti, Andrea - 2008
that the monopoly platform does not introduce distortions over and above those arising from the market power of the …
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Complexity, Efficiency, and Fairness of Multi-Product Monopoly Pricing
Miravete, Eugenio J. - 2014
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board administers the purchase and sale of wine and spirits and is mandated to charge a uniform 30% markup on all products. We use an estimated discrete choice model of demand for spirits, together with information on wholesale prices, to assess the implications...
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Genetic Contamination of Traditional Products
Choi, E. Kwan - 2021
Cross-pollination can be caused by birds, insects and wind. Genetically modified (GM) seeds are produced each year in a controlled environment to maintain their purity. However, pollen from the GM crop can be transferred to traditional crops. When the GM crop producers are in long-run...
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Markets for Information : Of Inefficient Firewalls and Efficient Monopolies
Cabrales, Antonio; Gottardi, Piero - 2021
typically noisy. Also, the market for information tends to be a monopoly, and there is typically inefficiency given by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316507
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Taxation in Two-Sided Markets
Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - 2021
Two-sided platform firms serve distinct customer groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and include major businesses such as the media industry, banking, and the software industry. A well known textbook result in one-sided markets is that a government may increase a...
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Taxation and Market Power
Konrad, Kai A. - 2010
We analyze the incidence and welfare effects of unit sales taxes in experimental monopoly and Bertrand markets. We find …, in line with economic theory, that firms with no market power are able to shift a high share of a tax burden on to … consumers, independent of whether buyers are automated or human players. In monopoly markets, a monopolist bears a large share …
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North-South Technology Transfer in Unionised Multinationals
Lommerud, Kjell Erik - 2010
We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...
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Foreign Market Entry Under Incomplete Contracts
Seidel, Tobias - 2010
I show in this paper that incomplete contracts affect a firm's decision about serving foreign customers through exports or local sales from an affiliated plant. When contracts between two agents within a firm are too costly to write, the share of multinational firms may be higher or lower...
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Why Foreign Ownership May Be Good for You
Egger, Hartmut - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium two-country model with heterogeneous producers and rent sharing at the firm level due to fairness preferences of workers. We identify two sources of a multinational wage premium. On the one hand, there is a pure composition effect because multinational firms are...
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