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Global Cartels, Leniency Programs and International Antitrust Cooperation

Choi, Jay Pil - 2010

In this paper we analyze cartel formation and self-reporting incentives when firms operate in several geographical …-reporting by cartel members …

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Global Demographic Change and Climate Policies

Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017

Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate …

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Multimarket Linkages, Cartel Discipline and Trade Costs

Agnosteva, Delina - 2018

. A key feature of the model is that cartel discipline is endogenous. Thus, markets that appear segmented are … strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint. Importantly, trade costs affect cartel shipments and welfare not … costs exert a negative and significant effect on cartel discipline. In turn, cartel discipline has a negative and …

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Understanding the Decline in the Price of Oil Since June 2014

Baumeister, Christiane - 2016

Some observers have conjectured that the steep decline in the price of oil between June and December 2014 resulted from positive oil supply shocks in the second half of 2014. Others have suggested that a major shock to oil price expectations occurred when in late November 2014 OPEC announced...

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A Third Benefit of Joint Non-OPEC Carbon Taxes : Transferring OPEC Monopoly Rent

Dong, Yan - 2013

This paper highlights the potential for joint OECD (or non-OPEC) carbon taxes to reduce OPEC's monopoly rent and provide benefit to non-OPEC countries provided jointly agreed trigger strategies are adhered to. In traditional economic theory, the primary purpose of a carbon tax is to internalize...

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Offshoring along the Production Chain

Harms, Philipp - 2009

Recent contributions on off shoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production...

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Internationally Coordinated Emission Permit Policies : An Option for Withdrawers from the Kyoto Protocol?

Bednar-Friedl, Birgit - 2014

policy if the world economy is dynamically efficient. From the perspective of a net foreign debtor country that has withdrawn … international policy coordination unless the world economy becomes dynamically inefficient …

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Why are Firms that Export Cleaner? International Trade and CO2 Emissions

Forslid, Rikard - 2014

This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments and thereby have an impact on their level of emissions. The model shows that investments in abatements are positively related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission...

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Oil Trade and Climate Policy

Curuk, Malik - 2015

It has been argued that a depletable resource owner might optimally increase near-term supply in response to environmental policies promoting the development of alternative resources, which might render climate policy ineffective or even counterproductive. This paper empirically confirms this...

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Inequality and the Social Cost of Carbon

Anthoff, David - 2016

This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the Social Cost of Carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based Social Cost of Carbon estimate and an equity weighted Social Cost of Carbon...

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