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Search costs and corporate income tax competition

Konrad, Kai A. - 2010

. -- costly search ; tax competition ; corporate taxation ; monopoly pricing paradox …

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Konrad, Kai A.; Morath, Florian; Müller, Wieland - 2009

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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Merger in contests

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - 2000

Competition in some markets is a contest. This paper studies the merger incentives in such markets. Merger can be profitable. The profitability depends on the post-merger contest st ructure, the discriminatory power of the contest and on the number of contestants

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The strategic advantage of being poor : private and public provision of public goods

Konrad, Kai A. - In: Economica 61 (1994) 241, pp. 79-92

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Strategic trade policy and the home bias in firm ownership structure

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A. - 2003

In this note we consider the preferences of a profit maximizing firm for international ownership in a world in which firms compete in an international Cournot oligopoly, and in which countries use strategic trade policy. We find that firms prefer national ownership and show that full...

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Inverse Campaigning

Konrad, Kai A. - 2003

It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A s policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...

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Strategic trade policy and merger profitability

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A. - 2003

We study the profitability incentives of merger and the endogenous industry structure in a strategic trade policy environment. Merger changes the strategic trade policy equlilibrium. We show that merger can be profitable and welfare enhancing here, even though it would not be profitable in a...

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Human capital investment and globalization in extortionary states

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

This paper considers education investment and public education policy in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy chooses an education policy in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time-consistent taxation similar to benevolent...

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Tax havens, accounting experts, and fee-setting rules

Gresik, Thomas A.; Konrad, Kai A. - 2017

Tax havens differ in the specific tax planning arrangements multinational firms can use to reduce their tax liabilities. Given the complexity and cost associated with identifying the most effective tax haven to use, an accounting firm can act as an intermediary between tax havens and...

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Merger without cost advantages

Huck, Steffen (contributor); Konrad, Kai A. (contributor); … - 2005

The seminal paper by Salant, Switzer and Reynolds (1983) showed that merger in a standard Cournot framework with linear demand and linear costs is not profitable unless a large majority of the firms are involved in the merger. However, many strategic aspects matter for firm competition such as...

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