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Endogenous enforcement of intellectual property, North-South trade, and growth
Schäfer, Andreas; Schneider, Maik T. - 2011 - This version: August 2011
While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312504
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Tainted food, low-quality products and trade
Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zhao, Laixun - 2010
This paper examines international trade in tainted food and other low-quality products. Wefirst find that for a large … class of environments, free trade is the trading system that conveysthe highest incentives to produce non-tainted high …-quality goods by foreign exporters.However, free trade cannot prevent the export of tainted products, and the condition fortainting …
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A global perspective on the incidence of monopoly distortions
Ding, Siying; Lashkaripour, Ahmad; Lugovskyy, Volodymyr - 2024
-parametric formulas, we measure how trade modifies the deadweight loss of markups through two channels: (1) trade-induced change in markup … zero-sum welfare effects similar to implicit tariffs that tilt the terms of trade in favor of countries exporting high … compile new data on global profit ownership. Our findings reveal that trade has greatly reshaped the global incidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583781
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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/10011447628
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Can taxing foreign competition harm the domestic industry?
Lutz, Stefan H. - 1998
The answer to the question in the title is yes for the case of ad-valorem taxes, a foreign industry that produces a vertically differentiated good of higher quality, and costs that take the form of qualitydependent fixed costs for both the foreign and domestic firm. The domestic industry loses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518148
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The effects of quotas on vertical intra-industry trade
Lutz, Stefan Heinz Hermann - 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/10010519051
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Antidumping as strategic trade policy under asymmetric information
Matschke, Xenia; Schöttner, Anja - 2009
penalty duties. We show that the antidumping framework within GATT/WTO may not only offer the means to pursue strategic trade … policy disguised as fair trade policy, but may also help overcome the informational problems with regard to determining the … optimal strategic trade policy. -- Antidumping duties ; asymmetric information ; trade protection ; strategic trade policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003807867
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Optimal tariffs, retaliation and the welfare loss from tariff wars in the Melitz model
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin; Larch, Mario - 2011
and a terms of trade externality. It is larger the higher the dispersion of firm-level productivities, and the bigger the … tariffs ; retaliation ; tariff wars ; heterogeneous firms ; World Trade Organization ; Nash equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130204
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Buyer power in international markets
Raff, Horst (contributor); Schmitt, Nicolas (contributor) - 2008
market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail … market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices may be higher and welfare may be lower in free trade than in … autarky, thus reversing the standard effects of trade liberalization. Second, the pro-competitive effects of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726017
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Buyer power in international markets
Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009
market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail … market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices may be higher and welfare may be lower in free trade than in … autarky, thus reversing the standard effects of trade liberalization. Second, the pro-competitive effects of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872802