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Mobile network interconnection and investments
Veith, Tobias - 2009
Abstract In markets with competing interconnected networks like mobile telecommunication markets investments affect the … investor’s and also any competitors’ profits. In a theoretical model it is shown that cost-reducing investments reduce the …, investments increase off-net traffic from the investor’s network but also from competitors’ networks. Regulation changes the …
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Mobile network interconnection and investments
Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
Abstract In markets with competing interconnected networks like mobile telecommunication markets investments affect the … investor’s and also any competitors’ profits. In a theoretical model it is shown that cost-reducing investments reduce the …, investments increase off-net traffic from the investor’s network but also from competitors’ networks. Regulation changes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008500714
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Spatial Externalities and Empirical Analysis: The Case of Italy
Mion, Giordano - 2003
In the last ten years the space issue, i.e. the study of the role played by space in economic phenomena, has attracted a lot of interest from many economic fields. The combination of increasing returns, market imperfections, and trade costs creates forces that, together with factor endowments,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297289
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International Coordination of Quality Standards and Vertical Product Differentiation
Lutz, Stefan - 2003
I study the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product differentiation and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Three alternative standard setting arrangements are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297292
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Pricing to market of German exporters: evidence from panel data
Falk, Rahel; Falk, Martin - 1998
This paper investigates price discrimination of German exporters across different foreign markets. We examine the degree of pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model is estimated using panel data on export unit values. Parameter estimation relies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297591
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The Effects of Quotas on Vertical Intra-Industry Trade
Lutz, Stefan H. - 2002
A quota on foreign competition will generally lead to quality-upgrading (downgrading) of the low-quality (high-quality) firm, an increase in average quality, a reduction of quality differentiation, and a reduction of domestic consumer surplus, irrespective of whether the foreign firm produces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297879
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Mutual Recognition of National Minimum Quality Standards may Support International Convergence
Lutz, Stefan - 2003
In a model of vertical product differentiation, duopolistic firms face qualitydependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set according to the principle of Mutual Recognition, can be used to increase welfare. The results of the one-shot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298134
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Readdressing the trade effect of the Euro: Allowing for currency misalignment
Hogrefe, Jan; Jung, Benjamin; Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2010
We know that euro-area member countries have absorbed asymmetric shocks in ways that are inconsistent with a common nominal anchor. Based on a reformulation of the gravity model that allows for such bilateral misalignment, we disentangle the conventional trade cost channel and trade effects...
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The optimal tariff in the presence of trade-induced productivity gains
Hübler, Michael; Pothen, Frank - 2013
We scrutinize the impact of international productivity gains (spillovers) induced by imports and exports on optimal tariffs. First, we solve a stylized 2x2 trade model of a large open economy and show that (a) productivity gains via exports and imports both reduce the strategically optimal...
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On the effects of unilateral environmental policy on offshoring in multi-stage production processes
Schenker, Oliver; Koesler, Simon; Löschel, Andreas - 2014
In the last decades supply chains emerged that stretch across many countries. This has been explained with decreasing trade and communication costs. We extend the literature by analyzing if and how unilateral environmental regulation induces offshoring to unregulated jurisdictions. We first...
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