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Baake, Pio; Huck, Steffen - 2013

We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect domestic food prices. Our first results is that export...

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Cartel Stability and Economic Integration

Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2004

understanding about staying out of each other?s markets. The paper distinguishes among different types of trade costs: ad valorem …, unit, fixed. It is shown that for a sufficient reduction of ad valorem trade costs, a cartel supported by collusion on … unit (fixed) trade costs a price setting cartel is strengthened (unaffected), while a quantity setting one is weakened. …

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Europe's twenties: a study using the WIATEC model

Kemfert, Claudia; Kremers, Hans; Truong, Truong Phuoc - 2009

Europe's 20-20-20 climate policy. The results show that the economic costs of implementing the policy are only moderate and …

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Economic effects of transportation infrastructure quantity and quality: A study of German counties

Gaus, Dennis; Link, Heike - 2020

accounting for endogeneity. We find, in line with existing research, a positive impact of the quantity of transport …

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Strategic environmental policy and the mobility of firms

Richter, Philipp M.; Runkel, Marco; Schmidt, Robert C. - 2019

The loss of international competitiveness of domestic industries remains a key obstacle to the implementation of effective carbon prices in a world without harmonized climate policies. We analyze countries' non-cooperative choices of emissions taxes under imperfect competition and mobile...

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Environmental policy and firm selection in the open economy

Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp M. - 2019

In this paper, we analyse the effects of a unilateral change in an emissions tax in a model of international trade with heterogeneous firms. We find a positive effect of tighter environmental policy on average productivity in the reforming country through reallocation of labour towards exporting...

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The missing globalization puzzle: another explanation

Siliverstovs, Boriss; Schumacher, Dieter - 2007

This study suggests another explanation of the missing globalization puzzle typically observed in the empirical gravity models. In contrast to the previous research that focused on aggregated trade flows, we employ the trade flows in manufacturing products broken down by 25 three-digit ISIC...

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Estimating gravity equations: to log or not to log?

Siliverstovs, Boriss; Schumacher, Dieter - 2007

This study compares two alternative approaches to estimate parameters in gravity equations. We compare the traditional OLS approach applied to the log-linear form of the gravity model with the Poisson Quasi Maximum Likelihood (PQML) estimation procedure applied to the non-linear multiplicative...

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Tariffs and Firm-Level Heterogeneous Fixed Export Costs

Guldager Jørgensen, Jan; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2005

the simplest specifications possible, namely a symmetric two-country intra-industry trade model with fixed export costs …

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Effects of tariffication : tariffs, quotas and VERs under monopolistic competition

Jørgensen, Jan G.; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2002

Recent rounds of GATT and later WTO have advocated widespread tariffication, meaning that existing non-tariff barriers be converted into import equivalent tariffs. From an economic point of view, the effects of such tariffication are not entirely clear. The paper presents a general equilibrium...

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