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Can Taxes on Cars and on Gasoline Mimic an Unavailable Tax on Emissions?

Fullerton, Don - 1999

, the technology is not yet available to measure and tax each car's total emissions. We thus investigate alternative …

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Strategic Trade Policy with Endogenous Choice of Quality and Asymmetric Costs

Zhou, Dongsheng - 2000

This paper examines the strategic trade policy incentives for investment policies towards quality improvements in a vertically differentiated exporting industry. Firms first compete in qualities and then export to a third country market based on Bertrand or Cournot competition. Optimal policies...

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How Did the Dollar Peg Fail in Asia?

Ito, Takatoshi - 1999

Japanese and US firms in their markets. The duopoly model is used to determine export prices and volumes in response to the …

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Sticky Prices, Coordination and Collusion

Driscoll, John C. - 1999

New Keynesian models of price setting under monopolistic competition involve two kinds of inefficiency: the price level is too high because firms ignore an aggregate demand externality, and when there are costs of changing prices, price stickiness may be an equilibrium response to changes in...

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Strategic Information Disclosure : The Case of Multi-Attribute Products with Heterogeneous Consumers

Hotz, V. Joseph - 2006

We examine the incentives for firms to voluntarily disclose otherwise private information about the quality attributes of their products. In particular, we focus on the case of differentiated products with multiple attributes and heterogeneous consumers. We show that there exist certain...

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Information Spillovers in Experience Goods Competition

Chen, Zhuoqiong; Stanton, Christopher T.; Thomas, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

study a two-period model of duopoly competition in markets that have this feature and where firms can price discriminate …

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Procompetitive Market Access

Krishna, Kala - 1997

provide two examples to illustrate this point. In the context of a Cournot duopoly, we show that an implementation scheme in …

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Intra-Industry Trade with Bertrand and Cournot Oligopoly : The Role of Endogenous Horizontal Product Differentiation

Brander, James A. - 2015

This paper investigates the effect of endogenous horizontal product differentiation on trade patterns and the gains from trade under Bertrand and Cournot oligopoly. Firms differentiate their products to mitigate competition, but only if the investment required is not too high. Investment in...

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Endogenous Horizontal Product Differentiation under Bertrand and Cournot Competition : Revisiting the Bertrand Paradox

Brander, James A. - 2015

This paper provides a new and simple model of endogenous horizontal product differentiation based on a standard demand structure derived from quadratic utility. One objective of the paper is to explain the "empirical Bertrand paradox" - the failure to observe homogeneous product Bertrand...

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Implementing Technology

Comin, Diego - 2007

We introduce a tractable model of endogenous growth in which the returns to innovation are determined by the technology … adoption decisions of the users of new technologies. Technology adoption involves an implementation investment that determines … the initial productivity of a new technology. After implementation, learning increases the productivity of a technology to …

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