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Eckel, Carsten - 2009

The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...

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The impact of private label introduction on assortment, prices, and profits of retailers

Ma, Meilin; Siebert, Ralph - 2021

We study how the introduction of private-label brands (PLs) affects retailers' prices, demand, and profits, explicitly accounting for assortment adjustments of national brands (NBs) in retail stores. Using a detailed dataset on the U.S. beef market, we find that, when PLs are added to the...

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Sales taxation, spatial agglomeration, and the Internet

Agrawal, David R.; Wildasin, David E. - 2019

Technological innovations facilitating e-commerce have well-documented effects on consumer behavior and firm organization in the retail sector, but the effects of these new transaction technologies on fiscal systems remain unknown. By extending models of commodity tax competition to include...

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The political economy of EU enlargement : or, why Japan is not a candidate country?

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2002

In this paper we argue that strong political economy forces explain the rush of the EU to expand eastwards. We use a model of vertical product differentiation in order to claim that technologically- advanced EU firms (residing in high-income member countries) prefer a mutual market-opening with...

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Buyer power in international markets

Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009

market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices may be higher and welfare may be lower in free trade than in …

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Lessons of the 1999 Abolition of intra-EU duty free sales for Eastern European EU candidates

Gebauer, Andrea; Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2002

At the end of June 1999 the intra-EU duty free shopping was abolished among the fifteen member nations. The opponents of this resolution argued that such a tax-free sales sector created jobs EU-wide and hardly reduced the value added and excise tax revenue of individual countries. In their...

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Manufacturers and retailers in the global economy

Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011

concentration is best explained by technological change in retailing. We also identify a novel benefit from market integration …

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Double diversification with an application to Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Wijkman, Per Magnus - 2015 - Final version, 27 May 2015

Excessive concentration increases national risk in an uncertain world. This paper views economic and political … diversification as an essential aspect of national risk management aimed at promoting efficiency, growth, and welfare. The paper first … presents economic and political diversification side by side in a cross-country framework and discusses how they interact and …

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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination

Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021

Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...

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Survival of new firms in the Brazilian franchising segment : an empirical study

Façanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente - 2011

The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a...

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