In this paper we consider the case for subsidies towards firms which generate R&D spillovers in open economies. We show that in the presence of strategic behaviour by firms many expected results are overturned. Local R&D spillovers to other domestic firms may justify an R&D tax rather than a...

In previous literature, the degree of exchange rate pass-through to importing country’s currency has often been found to be incomplete, which supports the idea of imperfect competition in the forest products markets. In this study, exchange rate pass-through is examined by employing a mark-up...

Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse. Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but...

AbstractThe resilience of trade balances of the major industrialised economies such as the US andJapan to changes in their exchange rates following the switch from fixed to floating exchangerate regimes, triggered interest in the exchange rate pass-through relationship. Because of theimportance...

The characteristics of the interest rate pass-through in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland are studied making use of autoregressive distributed lags (ARDL) models. Significant differences are found across market interest rates and countries concerning long-run elasticities of market...

Este documento analiza cómo la estructura contractual entre las estaciones de servicio y el operador mayorista afecta a las estrategias de precios. Utilizando los precios diarios de las estaciones de servicio, en el documento se observa que los distribuidores independientes cobran márgenes...

Entre diciembre de 2020 y junio de 2021, los precios mayoristas de la electricidad casi se duplicaron en España. De acuerdo con las estimaciones presentadas en este documento, una parte significativa de este aumento —alrededor del 20?%— vendría explicado por el encarecimiento observado, en...

Entre diciembre de 2020 y junio de 2021, los precios mayoristas de la electricidad casi se duplicaron en España. De acuerdo con las estimaciones presentadas en este documento, una parte significativa de este aumento —alrededor del 20?%— vendría explicado por el encarecimiento observado, en...