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Salience in retailing : vertical restraints on internet sales
Helfrich, Magdalena; Herweg, Fabian - 2017 - This version: August 14, 2017
overvalues a product attribute - quality or price - that stands out in a particular choice situation. In a highly competitive low-price … environment like on an online platform, consumers focus more on price rather than quality. Especially if the market power of local … (physical) retailers is low, price tends to be salient also in the local store, which is unfavorable for the high …
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Why are firms that export cleaner? : international trade and CO2 emissions
Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro; Ulltveit-Moe, Karen … - 2014 - This version: May 2014
This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments and thereby have an impact on their level of emissions. The model shows that investments in abatements are positively related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission...
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Income inequality and export prices across countries
Flach, Lisandra; Janeba, Eckhard - 2013
leads to higher average prices. We test the theory using detailed data for Brazilian exporters and find that the destination …
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Quality and gravity in international trade : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy, May 2016
Flach, Lisandra; Unger, Florian - 2016
. Consistent with our theory, vertical differentiation affects exports via sunk costs and the extensive margin, whereas the effect …
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Trade and the environment : the role of firm heterogeneity
Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp M. - 2012
This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalisation on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced not only by the long-established scale effect, but also by a reallocation effect resulting from an...
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Trade and industrial policy of transition economies
Gonzales, José Luis Moraga; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2001
price competition (but not on social welfare). …
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Dynamic entry in vertically differentiated markets
Auer, Raphael A.; Sauré, Philip - 2016
We develop a model of vertical innovation in which firms incur a market entry cost and choose a unique level of quality. Once established, firms compete for market shares, selling to consumers with heterogeneous tastes for quality. The equilibrium of the pricing game exists and is unique within...
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Rules of origin and market power
Chung, Wanyu; Perroni, Carlo - 2020
would obtain under an equivalent import tariff, and we document patterns in Canadian export data and US producer price data …
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Procompetitive trade policies
Gonzales, José Luis Moraga; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2001
We study the procompetitive effects of trade policies against a foreign oligopoly in a model of vertical product differentiation. We show that a uniform tariff policy like the Most Favored Nation (MFN) clause is always welfare superior to free trade because of a pure rent-extraction effect....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400885
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International spillovers of quality regulations
Macedoni, Luca; Weinberger, Ariel - 2024
This paper investigates the positive international spillover effects of non-discriminatory product regulations, such as quality standards. We incorporate regulations into a multi-country general equilibrium framework with firm heterogeneity and variable markups. We model regulations as a...
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