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Transfer Pricing and the Arm's Length Principle Under Imperfect Competition

Choi, Jay Pil - 2019

sourcing incentives. We also develop a novel theory of vertical foreclosure as an equilibrium outcome of strategic transfer …

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Productivity, Matchability and Intermediation in Production Networks

Manova, Kalina; Moxnes, Andreas; Perelló, Oscar - 2025

in a model of network formation with suppliers of heterogeneous productivity and matchability, buyers of heterogeneous … productivity, and intermediaries that reduce matching costs for a brokerage fee. Empirical evidence on trade activity across firms …

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Buyer power in international markets

Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009

This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices...

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Competitive Imperfect Price Discrimination and Market Power

Belleflamme, Paul - 2019

Two duopolists compete in price on the market for a homogeneous product. They can 'profile' consumers, i.e., identify their valuations with some probability. If both firms can profile consumers but with different abilities, then they achieve positive expected profits at equilibrium. This...

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Rules of Origin and Market Power

Chung, Wanyu - 2020

We study how domestic content requirements in Free Trade Areas (FTAs) affect market power and market structure in concentrated intermediate goods markets. We show that content requirements increase oligopolistic markups beyond the level that would obtain under an equivalent import tariff, and we...

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Labour Market Power and the Dynamic Gains to Openness Reforms

Jha, Priyaranjan; Rodríguez López, Antonio; Spencer, Adam - 2023

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium framework with firm heterogeneity and monopsonistic labour markets, for quantification of the impact of trade and FDI liberalisation episodes. Firms make standard extensive margin investment choices into exporting and multinational statuses. The labour...

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Profit-Sharing Rules and the Taxation of Multinational Internet Platforms

Bloch, Francis - 2019

This paper analyzes taxation of an Internet platform attracting users from different jurisdictions. When corporate income tax rates are different in the two jurisdictions, the platform distorts prices and outputs in order to shift profit to the low-tax country. We analyze the comparative statics...

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Productivity and Firm Boundaries

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2018

This paper develops and applies a test of the property rights theory of the firm in the context of global input …), 552-80, to derive a new prediction regarding how the productivity of a firm affects its choice between vertical … robust firm-level evidence from Spain showing that, in line with our prediction, the effect of productivity works more …

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Preferential Trade Liberalization with Endogenous Cartel Discipline : Implications for Welfare and Optimal Trade Policies

Agnosteva, Delina - 2020

We consider an international cartel whose members interact repeatedly in their own as well as in third-country segmented markets. Cartel discipline-an inverse measure of the degree of competition between firms-is endogenously determined by the cartel's incentive compatibility constraint (ICC),...

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Export or Merge? Proximity vs. Concentration in Product Space

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2013

This paper proposes a proximity-concentration tradeoff in product space as a determinant of horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms that enter a foreign market by exporting are able to capture consumer surplus from introducing a differentiated product with characteristics that the...

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