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Will There Be a Concentration of Alikes? The Impact of Labor Market Structure on Industry Mix in the Presence of Product Market Shocks
Stahl, Konrad; Walz, Uwe - 2001
We analyze determinants of regional industry mix and focus especially on the influence of labor market characteristics. By combining a labor market pooling argument with an argument involving the cost of switching a worker from one firm to another, we show that in the presence of product market...
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Noncompetitive Pricing and Exchange Rate Pass-Through in Mauritanian Octopus Export Markets
Kazmierczak, Richard F.; Zapata, Hector O.; Diop, Hamady - 1997
Octopus exports are an important source of foreign exchange for Mauritania. The export market has historically been dominated by coordinated Japanese buyers, a situation that led Mauritania to create the Societe Mauritanienne de Commercialisation de Poisson (SMCP) to negotiate with buyers and...
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OBSERVATIONS ON COOPERATIVE BARGAINING IN U.S. AGRICULTURAL MARKETS
Hueth, Brent; Marcoul, Philippe - 2002
This paper identifies market and commodity characteristics that seem to support successful cooperative bargaining in markets for farm output. Bargaining is not just about increasing prices paid to farmers; indeed, although there is very little empirical research that addresses the issue, what...
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Grain Distribution in Ghana under Imperfectly Competitive Market Conditions
Langyintuo, Augustine S. - 2010
Interspatial and intertemporal grain distribution in Ghana is a private sectoractivity carried out mainly by traders. These traders sometimes collude to maximize theirjoint profits. By so doing they influence the conduct of the grains market. To examine theeffect of their actions on the informal...
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Imperfect Competition between Milk Manufacturers and Retailers in a Midwestern State in the U.S.
Hovhannisyan, Vardges; Stiegert, Kyle W. - 2011
claimants. Later they may collect a part or full rents from the retailers through two-part tariffs. …
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Strategic Choice of Domestic Environmental Policy Instrument and International Emissions Trading Scheme in an Open Economy with Imperfect Competition
Boom, Jan Tjeerd - 2003
This paper presents a model of imperfect international competition. Within this framework, the optimal choice of national environmental policy instrument and international emissions trading scheme is discussed. The choice of national instrument is restricted to absolute and relative standards,...
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On Pricing and Vertical Organization of Differentiated Products: The Case of Soybean Seed Industry
Shi, Guanming; Chavas, Jean-Paul - 2009
This paper investigates the pricing and vertical organization of differentiated products under imperfect competition. In a multiproduct context, a Cournot model is used to examine how substitution/complementarity relationships among products and vertical structures can affect the exercise of...
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Improving Market Access: The Role of Auctions in Converting Tariff-Rate Quotas into Single Tariffs
Joerin, Robert - 2009
should be eliminated. Bhagwati’s theorem of the non-equivalence of tariffs and quotas leads to the conclusion that under … imperfect competition, market access can be improved by converting TRQs into single tariffs. In order to find the ‘new’ tariff … empirical evidence from auctions of TRQs in Switzerland that the observed auction prices are below the equivalent tariffs. This …
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Climate Change, Energy Demand and Market Power in a General Equilibrium Model of the World Economy
Roson, Roberto; Bosello, Francesco; de Cian, Enrica - 2007
Future energy demand will be affected by changes in prices and income, but also by other factors, like temperature levels. This paper draws upon an econometric study, disentangling the contribution of temperature in the determination of the annual regional demand for energy goods. Combining...
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Effects of Country of Origin Labeling in the U.S. Meat Industry with Imperfectly Competitive Processors
Chung, Chanjin; Zhang, Tong; Peel, Derrell S. - 2009
The study examines the impacts of implementing mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) on producer and consumer welfare in the U.S. meat industry. The equilibrium displacement model developed in this study includes twenty-nine equations representing retail-, processing-, and farm-level...
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