This paper highlights the potential for joint OECD (or non-OPEC) carbon taxes to reduce OPEC's monopoly rent and … theory, the primary purpose of a carbon tax is to internalize a global negative externality. A second benefit for individual … countries is that the revenue raised by carbon tax can be used to reduce other tax rates and so lower the deadweight loss of tax …

presence of human buyers constrains the pricing behavior of a monopolist. -- tax incidence ; monopoly ; Bertrand competition …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 …

In this paper we study the endogenous determination of monopoly price. Our proposed game of endogenous monopoly …-price setting extends the literature on monopoly-price, monopoly rent-seeking contests and monopoly rent-seeking rent …-avoidance contests by (i) determining the monopoly price such that it maximizes a composite utility function that depends on two …

profits. Monopsony power increases the tax incidence that falls on firms. This makes labor income taxes less (more) effective … in redistributing labor income (profits). The optimal tax schedule is less progressive. Monopsony power alleviates the …