We investigate how the pass-through rate of commodity taxes depends on competition in a setting where consumers have …

EMEs around the turn of the millennium, which signals increased competition and market contestability. …

competition. Pass-through of the VAT reduction was higher in product groups with a large number of competing products. We …

greater expected revenue than increasing competition through inclusion. This effect is absent when bidders know that those who …

products’ attractiveness and endogenous competition. The model is motivated by two novel stylized facts using Danish … feature the toughest competition. Depending on the strength of competition, two sorting patterns are possible: one in which … quantifying our model, we find that product-specific differences in attractiveness and competition explain a quarter of the …