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Industry Concentration and Strategic Trade Policy in Successive Oligopoly
Nese, Gjermund; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021
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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Trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms : the role of country asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011 - This version: December 17, 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822904
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Trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms : the role of country asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314284
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Intervention Versus Inter-Platform Competition : Strategic Industrial Policy and Standardisation
Friesenbichler, Klaus - 2016
Many innovation and industrial policy documents assign significant growth potential to "smart standardisation". The aim of this contribution is to discuss the complexity of standardisation as a policy instrument beyond the catchphrase. We derive implications on policies from the underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005982
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Import Protection Bias
Pecorino, Paul - 2007
export sector. Rodrik argues that import protection bias in developing countries might be explained by the revenue effects of …Rodrik (1995) notes that trade regimes tend to be biased towards import protection. Meanwhile, the standard political … addition to the government expenditure, export subsidies need to be financed either via tariff revenue or a distorting wage tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012731200
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Import Tariff Led Export Under-Invoicing : A Paradox
Biswas, Amit K. - 2010
Prolonged worldwide economic depression forces some economists and policy makers to demand for a tougher regulation to protect their domestic economy. If implemented, this may lead to a high tariff and non-tariff regime that ruled the pre-globalised world economy. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147870
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Trade Reforms of Uncertain Duration and Real Uncertainty : A First Approximation
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2006
shocks. These reforms induce consumption and import booms regardless of whether they succeed or fail and of the degree of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781720
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Does Free Trade Really Reduce Growth? Further Testing Using the Economic Freedom Index
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik - 2007
While studies of the relationship between economic freedom and economic growth have shown it to be positive, significant and robust, it has rightly been argued that different areas of economic freedom may have quite different effects on growth. Along that line, Carlsson and Lundstrom (2002)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055545
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Openness Can Be Good for Growth : The Role of Policy Complementarities
Chang, Roberto; Kaltani, Linda; Loayza, Norman - 2006
The authors study how the effect of trade openness on economic growth depends on complementary reforms that help a country take advantage of international competition. This issue is illustrated with a simple Harris-Todaro model where output gains after trade liberalization depend on the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061434
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Competing for Consumer Inattention
de Clippel, Geoffroy - 2013
Consumers purchase multiple types of goods and services, but may be able to examine only a limited number of markets for the best price. We propose a simple model which captures these features, conveying some new insights. A firm's price can deflect or draw attention to its market, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079317