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Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2008

Tax incentives can be more or less salient, i.e. noticeable or cognitively easy to process. Our hypothesis is that taxes on consumers are more salient to consumers than equivalent taxes on sellers because consumers underestimate the extent of tax shifting in the market. We show that tax salience...

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Chapter 26 Tax incidence

Fullerton, Don; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 4, (pp. 1787-1872). 2002

This chapter reviews the concepts, methods, and results of studies that analyze the incidence of taxes. The purpose of such studies is to determine how the burden of a particular tax is allocated among consumers through higher product prices, workers through a lower wage rate, or other factors...

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Tax Incidence Anomalies

Benzarti, Youssef - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper reviews the literature on the incidence of consumption and labor taxes and focuses on the empirical results that show stark departures from the canonical model of tax incidence, which I refer to as anomalies. In particular, there is mounting evidence questioning three fundamental...

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A First Principles Approach to Antitrust Enforcement in the Agricultural Industry

Manne, Geoffrey A.; Wright, Joshua D. - 2015

There are very few industries that can attract the attention of Congress, multiple federal and state agencies, consumer groups, economists, antitrust lawyers, the business community, farmers, ranchers, and academics as the agriculture workshops have. Of course, with intense interest from...

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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 investigation procedures and methods might be in line with the current regulation and practice. The report's arguments are based on the recent anti-dumping investigation – and...

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How Do Smokers Respond to Cigarette Taxes? : Evidence From China’s Cigarette Industry

Liu, Hong; Rizzo, John A.; Sun, Qi; Wu, Fang - 2020

theory into the model. Results show that the average own-price elasticity of demand for cigarettes at the brand level is –0 ….807, and the overall price elasticity of cigarettes at the market level is –0.488 in China. We find tax-induced substitution … toward low-price cigarettes as well as high-tar cigarettes and that tax hikes encourage within-class substitution more than …

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Getting a Better Price: Strategic Behaviour before Changes in Ownership of Corporate Assets

Friberg, Richard; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2008

We propose a model of investments prior to corporate ownership changes. We derive conditions under which the selling of a firm triggers overinvestment by both the seller and the buyer prior to the asset transfer. In a setting with Cournot competition, we show that these incentives can drive the...

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A brand specific investigation of international cost shock threats on price and margin with a manufacturer-wholesaler-retailer model

Dannewald, Till; Hildebrandt, Lutz - 2008

In times of increasing oil prices and a weak dollar, European companies that focus their business on the US market may find themselves in a weak position. While many businesses can hedge this kind of risk by relocating production to the US, or employing financial remedies, these strategies may...

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Estimation of Relative Bargaining Power in Markets for Raw Milk in the United States

Ahn, Byeong-Il - 2012

This study contributes to the empirical industrial organization literature by deriving and estimating the empirical equation containing the parameter for bargaining power and an indicator of competition between suppliers. We specify a reduced form of the price equation, which is composed of the...

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Learning in Retail Entry

Yang, Nathan - 2019

Retailers may face uncertainty about the profitability of local markets, which provide opportunities for learning when making entry decisions. To quantify these informational benefits, I develop an empirical framework for studying dynamic retail entry with uncertainty and learning (from others)....

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