We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power … on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect … domestic food prices. Our first results is that export tariffs are strategic complements and that for poor harvests equilibrium …

We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power … on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect … domestic food prices. Our first result is that export tariffs are strategic complements and that for poor harvests equilibrium …

firms compete in an international Cournot oligopoly, and in which countries use strategic trade policy. We find that firms …

analyse the market structure and market concentration of the Russian export company in the international fertiliser market … model testing the PTM hypothesis. The major advantages of the Knetter's model are that the pricing behaviour of the export … country towards the import countries can be estimated with public statistical data for the export statistics of the export …