trade under oligopoly. A hard Brexit where the UK trades according to WTO rules is shown to decrease total UK welfare, to … trade for the UK is shown to decrease total UK welfare, to increase total EU27 welfare, and to increase total welfare in the … rest of the world. A free trade agreement with the rest of the world rather than the EU27 will be beneficial, ceteris …

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability … trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent appropriation on world markets, and (iii) direct "synergy" effects of mergers …. -- mergers ; national champions ; international trade ; economic integration …

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability … trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent appropriation on world markets, and (iii) direct quot;synergyquot; effects of …

LMU Munich in February 2019. It consists of four selfcontained chapters that empirically investigate different trade … dampening phenomena using gravity analysis. The first two chapters examine the effects of anti-dumping duties on trade …, addressing endogeneity concerns linked to trade policy. In particular, Chapter 1 exploits the EU enlargement of 2004 as a natural …

collusion when firms interact in quantities in segmented markets: (1) multilateral trade liberalization, captured by a reduction … of trade costs across all markets; and (2) preferential trade liberalization, captured by an expansion in the size of … individual markets while holding the level of external trade costs (tariffs). In general, collusive stability is non …

The global welfare implications of home market effects in trade models with imperfect competition are little understood … stronger the market power of firms as well as the intensity of increasing returns to scale and the lower the trade costs. As …

this paper we explore the link between labour productivity, international trade and regional unemployment differentials. We … base our empirical analysis on the predictions of a simple General Oligopolistic Equilibrium efficiency-wage trade model …