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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783358
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316255
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317489
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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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Nonlinear Pricing and Exclusion : I. Buyer Opportunism
Choné, Philippe - 2014
We study the exclusionary properties of nonlinear price-quantity schedules in an Aghion-Bolton style model with elastic demand and product differentiation. We distinguish three regimes depending on whether and how the price of the incumbent good is linked to the quantity purchased from the rival...
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Nonlinear Pricing and Exclusion : II. Must-Stock Products
Choné, Philippe - 2014
We adapt the exclusion model of Choné and Linnemer (2014) to reflect the notion that dominant firms are unavoidable trading partners. In particular, we introduce the share of the buyer's demand that can be addressed by the rival as a new dimension of uncertainty. Nonlinear price-quantity...
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International Trade and Monopolistic Competition Without CES : Estimating Translog Gravity
Novy, Dennis - 2010
This paper derives a micro-founded gravity equation in general equilibrium based on a translog demand system that allows for endogenous markups and rich substitution patterns across goods. In contrast to standard CES-based gravity equations, trade is more sensitive to trade costs if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144787
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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2015
This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is … Pesaran (2003), an optimal aggregate function is derived, and the limiting behavior of the aggregation error is investigated … which ‘observed' inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …
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