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Subsidizing firm entry in open economies
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2009
the government incentive to impact on entry costs, and how entry subsidies can be used strategically in open economies. We … the monopoly pricing distortion. In the autarky equilibrium these subsidies trigger entry, but they eventually do not lead … to more but to better firms in the market. In the open economy there is another, strategic motive for entry subsidies as …
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Market entry regulation and international competition
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten; Stähler, Frank - 2003
As a part of their industry or competition policies governments decide whether to allow for free market entry of firms or to regulate market access. We analyze a model where governments (ab)use these policy decisions for strategic reasons in an international setting. Multiple equilibria of this...
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Multi-product firms and trade liberalization
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - 2009 - Rev.
This paper develops a general equilibrium model of international trade that features selection across firms, products and countries. Firms' export decisions depend on a combination of firm “productivity” and firm-product-country “consumer tastes,' both of which are stochastic and unknown...
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Effective tax rates, endogenous mark-ups and heterogeneous firms
Irlacher, Michael; Unger, Florian - 2018
We provide a new explanation why effective tax rates are smaller for larger firms even in the absence of common channels like profit shifting and lobbying. This result emerges in a heterogeneous firms model with endogenous mark-ups. Our framework features imperfect tax pass-through into prices...
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Multi-product exporters, carry-along trade and the margins of trade
Bernard, Andrew B.; Van Beveren, Ilke; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2010 - This Version: September 2010
New empirical and theoretical work has highlighted the importance of multi-product firms in international tradeflows. We examine multi-product exporters in the small open economy of Belgium, considering their importance and the relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity,...
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Made and created in China : super processors and two-way heterogeneity
Chen, Zhiyuan; Erbahar, Aksel; Zi, Yuan - 2019
In this paper, we show that there exists a special breed of firms that are active in both ordinary and processing exports. Contrary to the existing literature that describes processing firms as inferior, these mixed firms are superior to other firms in multiple dimensions, and hence we call them...
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Strategic trade policy in general oligopolistic equilibrium
Colacicco, Rudy - 2013
In a two-country general oligopolistic equilibrium model, I study how cross-sector strategic trade policy affects wages, countrywide profits, and welfare. Firms face resource constraints and wages are simultaneously determined. Relative to free trade, cross-sector protectionism generates a...
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Corporate taxes and multi-product exporters : theory and evidence from trade dynamics
Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael; Unger, Florian - 2019
This paper analyzes how exporters are affected by corporate tax reforms in destination markets. We introduce tax policy in a trade model of multi-product firms and show that producers face tougher competition in export markets with lower corporate tax rates. This competitive effect induces firms...
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Corporate taxes and multi-product exporters : theory and evidence from trade dynamics
Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael; Unger, Florian - 2019
This paper analyzes how exporters are affected by corporate tax reforms in destination markets. We introduce tax policy in a trade model of multi-product firms and show that producers face tougher competition in export markets with lower corporate tax rates. This competitive effect induces firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064599
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Structural reforms to boost growth and living standards in Argentina
González Pandiella, Alberto - 2018
Over the last decades Argentina’s living standards have lost ground relative to other developed and emerging economies. Putting Argentina on a path to stronger, inclusive and job-rich growth requires boosting productivity and strengthening investment through wide-ranging structural reforms....
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