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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms: The Role of Country Asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011

This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...

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Public procurement in the presence of capital taxation

Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 1999

The paper considers governments' public procurement decision as a way of influencing industry structure. In a federation in which capital is mobile and capital taxation is harmonized, a home bias in public procurement can potentially be explained as an effort to increase the capital intensity of...

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On the Design of Optimal Grandfathering Schemes for Emission Allowances

Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - 2003

To meet its commitment under the Kyoto Protocol, the EU plans to implement an emissions trading system with grandfathering of allowances. Besides having distributional impacts, the choice of the grandfathering scheme may affect efficiency if firms anticipate how future allocations depend on...

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Innovation and market concentration with asymmetric firms

Escrihuela-Villar, Marc - 2004

This paper considers a theoretical model of n asymmetric firms that reduce their initial unit costs by spending on R&D activities. In accordance with Schumpeterian hypotheses we obtain that more efficient (bigger) firms spend more in R&D and this leads to a more concentrated market structure. We...

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Deciding about (de-)centralization of industrial policy: Delegation by a central authority vs. bargaining of regional governments

Morasch, Karl - 2003

Die europäische Kommission ist primärer Träger der Industriepolitik in der europäischen Union. Industriepolitische … Industriepolitik besser von einem zentralen Träger durchgeführt wird, der Spillovers internalisiert, oder von den regionalen … Industriepolitik regional oder durch eine zentrale Instanz durchgeführt werden soll. Interessanterweise schneidet bei Verhandlungen mit …

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Struktur- und Industriepolitik in einer Welt konstitutioneller Unwissenheit

Starbatty, Joachim - 2000

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Privatizations in developing countries and the government's budget constraint

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - 2002

In this paper, we study the impact of government's budget constraint on the optimal industrial policy in industries with increasing returns to scale. We show that privatization is preferred to regulation for intermediate values of the shadow cost of public funds (i.e., the Lagrange multiplier of...

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Innovation, Industry Evoluation and Employment

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, A. Roy - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a series of articles on the linksbetween innovation, the evolution of industry and employment. These relationsprovide the building blocks of a new industrial policy. The articles areincluded in Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by...

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Clusters and Comparative Advantage: Implications for Industrial Policy

Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - 2005

Industrial agglomerations or `clusters` arise in the presence of industry-specific and local externalities, also called Marshallian externalities. The standard argument is that such externalities may justify a policy of infant-industry protection to allow and encourage clusters to emerge. This...

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Wohlfahrtseffekte von Rüstungs- und Raumfahrtausgaben: Das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten

Glismann, Hans H.; Horn, Ernst-Jürgen; Schrader, Klaus - 1993

Gemessen an den gesamten Staatsausgaben oder am Sozialprodukt haben die Ausgaben für Rüstung in den meisten hochentwickelten und auch weniger entwickelten Ländern einen beträchtlichen Stellenwert. Dies gilt zwar nicht für Raumfahrtausgaben, doch zeigt das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten,...

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