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Purpose: In a simple reciprocal dumping model of trade, this study scrutinizes the strategic role of trade and commodity taxes as environmental instruments when consumption of an imported product generates pollution. The results suggest that for sufficiently small values of the marginal...
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Abstract This paper shows that vertical foreign direct investment will reduce prices but the aggregate welfare effect is unambiguously positive only under free market entry. Using a standard model of imperfect competition, we develop this result by considering two different cases. In the first...
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Zusammenfassung In diesem Artikel wird ein Überblick über neuere Entwicklungen bei empirischen allgemeinen Gleichgewichtsmodellen (EAG) gegeben, wobei walrasianische Modelle weitgehend ohne makroökonomische Aspekte im Vordergrund stehen. Zunächst wird eine typische EAG-Modellstruktur...
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We investigate the optimal acquisition strategy of an investor who wants to acquire a target firm under incomplete information. The response to acquisition offers signals firm productivity, affecting future competition. We identify a competition effect (firms compete for acquisition) and a...
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Partial ownership can be used as a screening device by a foreign firm which wants to merge with a local firm whose productivity is private information. As partial ownership is confined to sharing future merger profits, it cannot achieve complete separation in all cases but improves expected...
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The volume of retail-level parallel trade is surprisingly small despite persistent international price differences. We offer an agency-based explanation by considering competition between an original home manufacturer and a foreign retailer. The model endogenizes the role of the retailer as an...
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