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exception. Wage mark-downs, that is wages below the marginal revenue product of labour rooted in employers’ monopsony power, are … and intensity of wage mark-downs whereas the opposite holds for wage mark-ups, that is wages above the marginal revenue …
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A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the...
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firms and labor is used for production. We show that two different types of equilibria may exist, one with factor price …
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This paper analyzes incentives of a multinational enterprise to manipulate an internal transfer price to take advantage … uncontrollable price” as two alternative implementations of the so-called arm’s length principle (ALP) to mitigate this problem. Tax …
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The incorporation of increasing returns and imperfect competition into applied general-equilibrium (AGE) models, beginning with Harris (1984), led to much larger welfare effects from changes such as trade liberalization. But the imperfect competition side of these IO developments has often...
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This paper analyses an electricity market in which a monopolist that employs fossil-fuel base-load and peak-load technologies competes against a fringe of renewable energy (RE) generators. The optimal technology and electricity mix can be decentralised by levying technology-dependent capacity...
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We extend structural gravity models of bilateral trade flows to oligopolistic competition. We show that conventional gravity estimates do not only reflect trade costs but also market power. Our simple estimation procedure generalizes the standard gravity model and disentangles exogenous trade...
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, allowing for the possibility that wages are determined according to an efficient bargaining process between employers and … of our empirical relationship between the price-cost margin and an alternative specification of imperfect competition of …
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In this paper, we revisit the fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL) within the New Keynesian (NK) model. We show in …
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For the academic audience, this paper presents the outcome of a well-identified, large change in the monetary policy rule from the lens of a standard New Keynesian model and asks whether the model properly captures the effects. For policymakers, it presents a cautionary tale of the dismal...
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