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The political economy of EU enlargement : or, why Japan is not a candidate country?

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2002

In this paper we argue that strong political economy forces explain the rush of the EU to expand eastwards. We use a … model of vertical product differentiation in order to claim that technologically- advanced EU firms (residing in high …

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Tacit collusion under destination- and origin-based commodity taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2000

The paper employs a standard model of dynamic price competition to study how international principles of value-added taxation affect the stability of collusive agreements when producers in an international duopoly agree not to export into each other's home market and tax rates differ across...

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Company tax reform in Europe and its effect on collusive behavior

Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2006

We study how harmonization of corporate tax systems affects the stability of international cartels. We show that tax base harmonization reinforces collusive agreements, while harmonization of corporate tax rates may destabilize or stabilize cartels. We also find that bilateral and full...

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Turkish delight for some, cold Turkey for others? : the effects of the EU-Turkey Customs Union

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2005

Following Turkey's application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly … asymmetric changes in the trade volumes of the incumbent countries of the EU as a result of the EU-Turkey CU. By examining … disaggregated trade data we find that the technologically sophisticated EU countries (e.g., mainly the Northern European countries …

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