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The Welfare Loss of Subsidies in Global Electricity Markets

Pineau, Pierre-Olivier - 2020

Subsidies induce a market inefficiency by creating a deadweight loss, since supply and demand are out of equilibrium. In 2016, electricity subsidies were the largest component of the total global energy subsides, with an estimated 128 billion USD out of 287 billion USD. Electricity generation is...

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The social cost of carbon and inequality : when local redistribution shapes global carbon prices

Kornek, Ulrike; Klenert, David; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - 2019

The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...

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Efficient taxation of fuel and road use

Bjertnæs, Geir H. M. - 2019

This study calculates efficient taxes on fuel and road use designed to combat driving related externalities. The study shows that the efficient road user charge on fuel is below the marginal mileage-related damage to prevent tax avoidance due to an excessive economic driving-style. The current...

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Efficient taxation of fuel and road use

Bjertnæs, Geir H. M. - 2019

This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian rate due to such avoidance. The current US tax rate...

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The Durapolist Puzzle : Monopoly Power in Durable-Goods Market

Orbach, Barak - 2008

devised to overcome difficulties in acquiring and maintaining monopoly power and the legal implications of these strategies …

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Monopoly Power in the Oil Market and the Macroeconomy

Branger, Nicole; Flacke, René Marian; Gräber, Nikolai - 2019

This paper studies macroeconomic consequences of oil price shocks caused by innovations in the monopoly power in the … oil market. Monopoly power is interpreted as oil producers' ability to charge a markup over marginal costs. We propose a …' monopoly power rises. A general equilibrium model suggests that higher monopoly profits attract investments in oil producing …

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An economic approach to parallel imports effects and competition policy

Katsulakos, Giannēs S.; Benetatou, Kalliopi - In: Russian journal of economics 6 (2020) 3, pp. 315-338

Parallel imports have been treated very differently in different countries. In the EU, competition law's very strong (per se) prohibition of restrictions to parallel imports (PI) can be justified by traditional "public interest" concerns related to the EU's objective to promote free trade and...

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Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion and Intellectual Property Rights : A Welfare Analysis

Valletti, Tommaso M.; Szymanski, Stefan - 2006

competition for the monopolist. The monopolist will introduce a "fighting brand" to compete with the generic, which dilutes but …

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Preisdispersion und Wettbewerb im Luftverkehr : ein theoretischer und empirischer Überblick

Evangelinos, Christos; Obermeyer, Andy; Püschel, Ronny - 2011

Im Luftverkehr ist häufig zu beobachten, dass für scheinbar ein und dieselbe Dienstleistung deutlich unterschiedliche Preise verlangt werden. Eine Ursache für die sogenannte Preisdispersion ist in der von den Unternehmen betriebenen Politik der Preisdifferenzierung zu sehen. Das Ausmaß an...

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Entry deterrence in durable-goods monopoly

Hoppe-Wewetzer, Heidrun; Lee, In-ho - 2000

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