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Green subsidies as strategic trade policy tools
Buccella, Domenico; Fanti, Luciano; Gori, Luca - 2023
("green") subsidy can become a potential strategic trade policy tool. When governments set the optimal policy tool considering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540271
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Voluntary environmental agreements, emission taxes and international trade: The importance of the timing of strategies
Conrad, Klaus - 1999
The purpose of the paper is to narrow the gap between the widespread use of voluntary agreements and research on the rationale of such approaches. A typical example are voluntary agreements of many industries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions because of global warming. If the industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608503
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Industry concentration and strategic trade policy in successive oligopoly
Nese, Gjermund; Straume, Odd Rune - 2005
We study a policy game between exporting and importing countries in vertically linked industries. In a successive international Cournot oligopoly, we analyse incentives for using tax instruments strategically to shift rents vertically, between exporting and importing countries, and horizontally,...
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Tariffs versus production subsidies as industry protection
Ogawa, Yoshitomo; Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2013
This paper provides a welfare comparison of a tariff with a combination of a production subsidy to, and a commodity tax … combination of the production subsidy and the commodity tax and show it to be superior to the tariff from the welfare viewpoint. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332447
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Environmental regulation and technology transfers
Asano, Takao; Matsushima, Noriaki - 2012
framework of an international duopoly with environmental regulations, this paper shows that an environmental tax imposed by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332390
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Optimal emission tax with endogenous location choice of duopolistic firms
Ikefuji, Masako; Itaya, Jun-ichi; Okamura, Makoto - 2009
This paper explores optimal environmental tax policy under which duopoly firms strategically choose the location of … of location of duopoly firms affects the welfare of the home country. We characterize the relationship between the … existence of asymmetric equilibrium in which either firm chooses relocation of its plant even if the duopoly firms are identical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332397
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Optimal emission tax with endogenous location choice of duopolistic firms
Ikefuji, Masako; Itaya, Jun-ichi; Okamura, Makoto - 2010
This paper explores optimal environmental tax policy under which duopoly firms strategically choose the location of … of location of duopoly firms affects the welfare of the home country. We characterize the relationship between the … existence of asymmetric equilibrium in which either firm chooses relocation of its plant even if the duopoly firms are identical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272412
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Environmental quality competition and eco-labeling
Amacher, Gregory S.; Koskela, Erkki; Ollikainen, Markku - 2003
the impact of green technology investment (ecolabeling), in a duopoly model of vertical product differentiation. The firms … for both firms is always positive, but lower than in the duopoly solution. In the absence of environmental externalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284969
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Subsidizing firm entry in open economies
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2009
firms where government subsidizes entry of domestic entrepreneurs. Under autarky the entry subsidy indirectly corrects for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271259
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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