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Can Competition Reduce Quality?
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2014
In a spatial competition setting there is usually a non-negative relationship between competition and quality. In this paper we offer a novel mechanism whereby competition leads to lower quality. This mechanism relies on two key assumptions, namely that the providers are motivated and...
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Horizontal Mergers and Product Quality
Brekke, Kurt Richard - 2015
We study the effects of horizontal mergers when firms compete on quality and price. Two key factors are identified: (i) the magnitude of variable quality costs, and (ii) the relative magnitudes of cross-quality and cross-price effects on demand. The merging firms will increase (reduce) both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019860
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Search Costs and Corporate Income Tax Competition
Konrad, Kai A. - 2010
This paper studies corporate tax competition if it is costly to learn some of the elements that determine the effective tax burden. Search cost may, but need not, eliminate the tax competition pressure. The outcome depends on the boundaries of tax rate and tax base choices. Search cost can...
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Fiscal Policy, Monopolistic Competition, and Finite Lives
Heijdra, Ben J. - 2006
The paper studies the short-run, transitional, and long-run output effects of permanent and temporary shocks in public consumption under various financing methods. To this end, a dynamic macroeconomic model for a closed economy is developed, which features a perfectly competitive final goods...
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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce : How Services Facilitate Firm's International Sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2021
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
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The Transitional Dynamics of Fiscal Policy in Small Open Economies
Heijdra, Ben J.; Ligthart, Jenny E. - 2021
The paper studies the dynamic macroeconomic effects of fiscal shocks of various duration (permanent and temporary) under different financing methods (lump-sum tax and government debt). To this end, we develop an intertemporal macroeconomic model for a small open economy, featuring monopolistic...
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VAT Notches
Liu, Li - 2015
We develop a conceptual framework which captures the effect of the VAT system on profit by two effective taxes. This … taxable income to an indirect tax setting. We bring the theory to the data, using linked administrative VAT and corporation … tax records in the UK from 2004-2009. Consistently with the theory, voluntary registration is positively related to the …
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Profit Shifting and Investment Effects : The Implications of Zero-Taxable Profits
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2018
profit. Setting up a model that allows for profitable and loss-making affiliates of multinationals, we show that profit … equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit …
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Trade, Wages, and Productivity
Behrens, Kristian - 2012
We develop a new general equilibrium monopolistic competition model with variable demand elasticity, heterogeneous firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are all endogenously determined and respond to trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097109
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International Outsourcing under Monopolistic Competition : Winners and Losers
Do, Viet Dung - 2007
We show that, even with flexible domestic wages, international outsourcing may worsen the welfare of the home country and reduce the profits of all firms. If wages are rigid, outsourcing is welfare-improving if and only if the sum of the quot;trade creationquot; effect and the quot;exploitation...
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