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In this paper, I develop a structural supply and demand model of the infant formula industry to evaluate the role that endogenous firm product offerings play in determining equilibrium market outcomes and welfare measures. Using the structural model's preference and cost estimates, I evaluate...
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This paper analyses the most recent WTO Appellate Body (AB) report in a series of disputes between the U.S. and the EU over government support to aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus. The measures under dispute in U.S. – Tax Incentives were investment promotion subsidies provided to Boeing...
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This article analyses the most recent WTO Appellate Body (AB) report in a series of disputes between the U.S. and the EU over government support to aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus. The measures under dispute in US – Tax Incentives were investment promotion subsidies provided to Boeing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910125
credit is a direct gasoline consumption subsidy with no effect on the ethanol price and therefore does not help either corn … gasoline price is always higher with a mandate compared to a tax credit. A tax credit alone is an ethanol consumption subsidy … a fuel consumption subsidy. Ethanol producers only gain indirectly with the increased ethanol demand resulting from the …
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subsidy programs continue to fund the wealthiest farmers. Because the corporate welfare state transcends any specific agency …
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South Korea felt "betrayed" when President Joseph R. Biden Jr. signed his administration's flagship climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, into law. This paper first shows how the Biden administration addressed Korea's concerns about the law's effect on its sales of...
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We study changes in markups across 72 product markets from 2006 to 2018. A growing literature has documented a rise in markups over time using a production function approach; we instead employ the standard microeconomic method, which is to estimate demand and then invert firms' first-order...
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We introduce a model of oligopoly dynamic pricing where firms with limited capacity face a sales deadline. We establish conditions under which the equilibrium is unique and converges to a system of differential equations. Using unique and comprehensive pricing and bookings data for competing...
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This paper empirically investigates the effects of US safeguard protection on steel imports in 2002 on the mark-ups of EU steel producers. We identify a large panel of European steel producers between 1995 and 2004 affected by the safeguards. Using the Roeger method, our results show that US...
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In a two-country international trade model with oligopolistic competition, we study the conditions on market structure and trade costs under which a merger policy designed to benefit domestic consumers is too tough or too lenient from the viewpoint of the foreign country. Calibrating the model...
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