In the wake of recent developments in United States administrative practice concerning the so-called 'zeroing' methodology in anti-dumping proceedings, it is worth looking back to certain key WTO Panel Reports issued in 2011. These decisions, and the United States' decision not to appeal them,...

We combine two data sets to study price rigidity. The first consists of weekly time series of retail, wholesale, and spot prices for twelve products. These time series contain two exogenous cost shocks. We find that prices exhibit more rigidity in response to the second shock than the first. The...

This chapter reports several robustness checks. OJ specifications designed to capture prior beliefs and non-linear responses to news detected some transient effects in many subjects, but for the most part the final regression is indistinguishable from the basic specification presented in this...

GST/VAT should apply to groceries in Canada. Misconceptions have led many Canadians to oppose taxing groceries or special interest groups to complain about the inequities inherent in taxing some food products but excluding others. With a broader GST base, for example by including groceries, the...

Theoretischer Teil -- Beschreibung von Porters Konzept -- Kritische Betrachtung und Präzisierung von Porters Konzept -- Kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der bisherigen Literatur -- Empirischer Teil -- Studiendesign -- Beurteilung der Datenqualität -- Ergebnisse der empirischen Untersuchung --...