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Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs
Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016
Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...
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Cost- and price dynamics of solar PV modules
Reichelstein, Stefan; Sahoo, Anshuman - 2015
This paper develops a model framework and a corresponding empirical inference procedure for estimating long-run marginal cost in industries where production costs decline over time. In the context of the solar photovoltaic module industry, we rely on firm-level financial accounting data to...
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When backward integration by a dominant firm improves welfare
Linnemer, Laurent - 2002
This paper studies the welfare consequences of a vertical merger that raises rivals costs when downstream competition is à la Cournot between firms with constant asymmetric marginal costs. The main result is that such a vertical merger can nevertheless improve welfare if it involves a...
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Competition, land prices, and city size
Kichko, Sergey - 2019
Larger cities typically give rise to two opposite effects: tougher competition among firms and higher production costs. Using an urban model with substitutability of production factors and pro-competitive effects, I study the response of the market outcome to city size, land-use regulations, and...
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Democratic tipping points
Ciccone, Antonio - 2018
I examine whether transitory events can tip the scales against authoritarian regimes and lead to persistent democratization. I think of situations where this is a possibility as democratic tipping points. The transitory events I focus on are rainfall shocks in the most agricultural countries in...
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Understanding rig rates
Osmundsen, Petter; Rosendahl, Knut Einar; Skjerpen, Terje - 2013
We examine the largest cost component in offshore development projects, drilling rates, which have been high in recent years. To our knowledge, rig rates have not been analysed empirically before in the economic literature. Using econometric analysis, we examine the effects of gas and oil...
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Do markets erode social responsibility?
Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013
This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data...
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Economic sanctions and agricultural trade
Larch, Mario; Luckstead, Jeff; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
Combining two new datasets on sanctions and agricultural trade and implementing step-by-step the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature, we investigate the effects of sanctions on international trade of agricultural products. We find that trade sanctions have been...
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Measuring the immeasurable : the evolution of the size of informal economy in the agricultural sector in the EU-15 up to 2019
Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021
This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …
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VAT and agriculture : lessons from Europe
Cnossen, Sijbren - 2017
Farmers are often exempted from VAT for administrative and political reasons. But this means that the VAT on their inputs cannot be "washed out" through the tax deduction/credit mechanism. To compensate farmers for the uncompensated VAT on inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that...
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