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Firm heterogeneity and imperfect competition in global production networks

Huang, Hanwei; Manova, Kalina; Perelló, Oscar; Pisch, Frank - 2024

We study the role of firm heterogeneity and imperfect competition for global production networks and the gains from trade. We develop a quantifiable trade model with two-sided firm heterogeneity, matching frictions, and oligopolistic competition upstream. More productive buyers endogenously...

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Trade in international transport services : the role of competition

Francois, Joseph F.; Wooton, Ian - 2000 - Rev., June 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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Market structure in services and market access in goods

Francois, Joseph F.; Wooton, Ian - 2004

that highlights this interaction. Theory points to an expected linkage between service sector competition and goods trade …

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Anti-dumping jumping : reciprocal anti-dumping and industrial location

Haaland, Jan I.; Wooton, Ian - 1996 - [Rev. version]

Anti-dumping policies are often justified as legitimate actions by governments in their efforts to protect domestic … producers from unfair foreign competition. We investigate the impact of anti-dumping rules on firms' production decisions as to … how much and where to produce. Anti-dumping measures may have unforeseen effects if they induce direct foreign investment …

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Demand and supply side linkages in exporting multiproduct firms

Eckel, Carsten; Flach, Lisandra; Meng, Ning - 2023

Products produced by a multiproduct firm can be linked through demand linkages or supply linkages. On the demand side, changes in the price of one product can affect the demand for a firm's other products through shifts in consumer expenditures. This is commonly referred to as the...

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Tax thy neighbour : corporate tax pass-through into downstream consumer prices in a monetary union

Dedola, Luca; Osbat, Chiara; Reinelt, Timo - 2022

We estimate the response of product-level retail prices to changes in the corporate tax rates paid by wholesale producers (pass-through). Under perfect competition in goods and factor markets, pass-through of corporate taxes should be zero, and their incidence mainly falls on factor prices. We...

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Firm heterogeneity, rules of origin and rules of cumulation

Bombarda, Pamela; Gamberoni, Elisa - 2008

We analyse the impact of relaxing rules of origin (ROOs) in a simple setting with heterogeneous firms that buy intermediate inputs from domestic and foreign sources. In particular, we consider the impact of switching from bilateral to diagonal cumulation when using preferences (instead of paying...

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Tainted food, low-quality products and trade

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zhao, Laixun - 2010

This paper examines international trade in tainted food and other low-quality products. Wefirst find that for a large class of environments, free trade is the trading system that conveysthe highest incentives to produce non-tainted high-quality goods by foreign exporters.However, free trade...

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Competition policy in an open economy

Francois, Joseph F.; Horn, Henrik - 1998 - Rev.

We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to the goals of competition policy (suchas the degree and nature of competition). The issues we address involve thegeneral equilibrium distributional effects of competition...

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The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) and tariffs : price behaviour with imperfectly competitive market intermediaries

MacLaren, Donald - 2014

The SSM is a proposal from the G-33 Group in the Doha Round negotiations in which developing countries would be allowed to use contingent tariffs to control import surges of food commodities and/or downward spikes in their border prices. The principal objective is to safeguard the livelihood...

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