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Tariffs passing through retailers : do tariffs actually protect domestic manufacturers?

Cole, Matthew T.; Eckel, Carsten - 2014

Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …

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Ben Bernanke in Doha : the effect of monetary policy on optimal tariffs

Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2016

infinite future. In this paper I analyze the setting of tariffs in a two-country model taking account of adjustment processes … induces policy makers with a short planning horizon to set lower tariffs because it enhances the short run boom following a … cut in tariffs. Monetary policy that aggressively fights deviations from its inflation target leads to even lower tariffs. …

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Can multinationals withstand growing trade barriers?

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Vujanović, Nina; Landesmann, Michael - 2024

environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … challenge to MNEs' subsidiaries' activity and performance than tariffs do. High-tech manufacturing subsidiaries of foreign MNEs …

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Commodity taxation and international trade in imperfect markets

Haufler, Andreas; Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank - 2000

This paper studies non-cooperative commodity taxation in a trade model with im-perfect competition and trade costs. Nationally optimal tax policy simultaneously tries to correct the domestic distortion from imperfect competition and to shift rents to the home country. Importantly, this trade-off...

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Economic integration and the choice of commodity tax base with endogenous market structures

McCracken, Scott; Staehler, Frank - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2007

This paper analyzes the choice of commodity tax base when countries set their taxes non-cooperatively in a two-country symmetric reciprocal dumping model of intra-industry trade with free entry and trade costs. We show that the consumption base (destination principle) dominates the production...

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Imperfect Competition, Labour Market Distortions, and the Double Dividend Hypothesis. Theory and Evidence from Italian Data

Marsiliani, Laura; Renstrom, Thomas I. - 2003

The paper explores the hypothesis of a double dividend from environmental taxation i.e. whether shifting the burden of taxation away from labour toward the environment can boost employment and increase welfare. We present a general-equilibrium model where the economy is distorted by labour...

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WTO membership and the shift to consumption taxes

Büttner, Thiess; Madzharova, Boryana - 2016

Using a panel of 97 mostly developing and transitional countries for the period 1990-2011, this paper explores fiscal implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Em-ploying robust difference-in-difference specifications as well as semi-parametric methods, we find that...

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Export taxes under Bertrand duopoly

Clarke, Roger; Collie, David R. - 2006

This article analyses export taxes in a Bertrand duopoly with product differentiation, where a home and a foreign firm both export to a third-country market. It is shown that the maximum-revenue export tax always exceeds the optimum-welfare export tax. In a Nash equilibrium in export taxes, the...

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Welfare in the nash equilibrium in export taxes und Bertrand duopoly

Clarke, Roger; Collie, David R. - 2006

In the Eaton and Grossman (1986) model of export taxes under Bertrand duopoly, it is shown that welfare in the Nash equilibrium in export taxes is always higher than welfare under free trade for both countries.

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Trade in International Transport Services: The Role of Competition

Francois, Joseph; Wooton, Ian - 2000

We are concerned with trade in transport services (not cabotage butrather international shipping, transport,and related logistical services) and the importance of competitionand market structure in the sector. Weexamine implications of liberalization for profits, trade, andnational gains from...

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