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Paving the Way for Unfair Competition : The Imposition of EU Anti-Dumping Duties on Ceramic Tiles from China
Kasteng, Jonas - 2012
The report identifies concerns with the EU anti-dumping instrument, as applied today, regardless of the fact that the … the recent anti-dumping investigation – and imposition of anti-dumping measures – on imports of ceramic tiles from China …, but the observations and conclusions from the analysis are valid for most EU anti-dumping investigations. The report …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109757
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Strategic Intellectual Property Rights Policy and North-South Technology Transfer
Naghavi, Alireza - 2005
This paper analyzes welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in the framework of TRIPS for developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade environment, the South sets its IPR policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312577
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FDI Selection : Crowding Out and Distributional Effects
Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 1999
Oligopolists from two source countries invest in a common host country to take advantage of low costs. A selective subsidy to multinational production encourages foreign direct investment (FDI) from the favored country but crowds out FDI from the other source. Such a subsidy also shifts rents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191349
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FDI Policies Under Shared Factor Markets
Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 2001
Note: The following is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract. We consider a model where firms from a high-cost source country shift some of their production to a low-cost host country. Firms earn profits since the output market is a Cournot oligopoly. Due to a fixed supply of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224238
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Exporting Versus Direct Investment Under Local Sourcing
Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 2000
This paper agrues that the prices of intermediates may influence the pattern of foreign direct investment (FDI). In our model, two downstream firms select whether to serve each other's markets through exports of FDI, always sourcing the intermediate good or service at the location of production....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151672
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Coordinating FDI Policies Among Host Countries
Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 2000
We study the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) policies when source firms locate some production in two host countries. By reducing its tax on multinational production, a host country can attract additional FDI, some of which is diverted from other host countries. The shift in FDI causes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151976
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Multinational Firms and Technology Transfer
Glass, Amy Jocelyn; Saggi, Kamal - 2015
We construct an oligopoly model in which a multinational firm has a superior technology compared to local firms. Workers employed by the multinational acquire knowledge of its superior technology. The multinational may pay a wage premium to prevent local firms from hiring its workers and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091456
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Quality-Improving R&D, Trade Barriers, and Foreign Direct Investment
Heinrich, Jeffrey - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 1997
This investigation pits Cournot oligopolists against each other in a model of quality and R&D choice. A firm gains a strategic advantage over its rival when it is able to sell in more countries due to the jointness of quality improvements across production locations. Trade barriers that restrict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824190
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Strategic Intellectual Property Rights Policy and North-South Technology Transfer
Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
This paper analyzes welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in the framework of TRIPS for developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade environment, the South sets its IPR policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005230932
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European Anti-Dumping Policy and the Profitability of National and International Collusion
Veugelers, Reinhilde; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2000
This paper is the first to study the effect of European Anti-dumping policy on market structure, i.e., the incentives … European anti-dumping policy influences the incentives for firms to collude domestically or internationally. We tackle the … question of whether anti-dumping regulation helps to establish, maintain or endanger full international cartels as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085335