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Crop failures and export tariffs
Baake, Pio; Huck, Steffen - 2013
We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power … on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect … domestic food prices. Our first results is that export tariffs are strategic complements and that for poor harvests equilibrium …
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The impact of price frames on consumer decision making : experimental evidence
Baake, Pio; Huck, Steffen - 2013
We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power … on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect … domestic food prices. Our first result is that export tariffs are strategic complements and that for poor harvests equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230311
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Effects of export control policy on food security : the case of the grain market in Russia
Kheifets, B. A.; Chernova, V. Yu. - In: Studies on Russian economic development 33 (2022) 2, pp. 211-217
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Universal intellectual property rights : too much of a good thing?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - 2013
violates IPR cannot legally export in a country that enforces them. Moreover free-riders cannot prevent others to copy their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764430
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Price transmission in food and non-food product markets : evidence from Mexico
Guerrero, Santiago; Juárez, Miriam; Sámano, Daniel; … - 2016
We document the existence of asymmetric price transmission in Mexico for a wide variety of food and non-food products, in terms of magnitude and speed, for two segments of the supply chain: i) Producer (producer-wholesale) and ii) Consumer (wholesale-retail). We find that asymmetric price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547646
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Food Bank Donations and Retail Pricing
Lowrey, John; Richards, Timothy J.; Hamilton, Stephen F. - 2020
Food banks are an important part of the food-retailing setting. In 2018, food banks delivered a total of 1.4 billion pounds of donated food to 51.4 million clients. Perhaps more importantly, food banks serve as an important outlet for food that would otherwise be discarded in land-fills, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090314
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Food Banks and Retail Markups
Lowrey, John; Richards, Timothy J.; Hamilton, Stephen F. - 2020
Food banks play a critical part in the food distribution system. In this paper, we examine the impact of food bank donations on retailer markups using a unique store-level data set on donations, labor employment, sales, and capital employment. We frame our empirical model of food bank donations...
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Food Prices and Market Structure in Sweden
Asplund, Marcus; Friberg, Richard - 2003
This paper examines retail grocery price levels across a large panel of stores in Sweden. We explain price variation across stores by market structure variables to capture differences in competition intensity and a number of store- and region-specific factors. Most of the explained variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091450
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International Competition in Vertically Differentiated Markets with Innovation and Imitation : Trade Policy Versus Free Trade
Kováč, Eugen - 2008
The important characteristic of international competition between developed and less developed countries is vertical product differentiation, where firms' quality choices represent strategic decisions. Unlike the previous literature, we allow for a leadership in quality choice and the...
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The WTO TRIPS Agreement and Global Economic Development
Abbott, Frederick M. - 2015
The optimal approach to creating and maintaining an equitable balance in the international IPRs system will likely involve a combination of approaches. The goal of the international IPRs system should be to promote innovation, while protecting against the continuation and exacerbation of a stark...
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