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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies

Pflüger, Michael - 2009

Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well understood is how international trade affects the government incentive to impact on entry costs,...

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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover

Südekum, Jens - 2021

We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may not be prone to "economic patriotism". A...

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Oligopoly and Outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2006

With outsourcing comes a perceived tension between the competitive pressures faced by domestic firms and the effect that outsourcing has on domestic workers. To address this tension, we present a general-equilibrium model with an oligopolistic export sector and a competitive import-competing...

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Business Conditions and Default Risks Across Countries

Pflüger, Michael - 2011

The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper … explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country … default risk of firms which operate in these environments. The predictions are in accord with readily available data …

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Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy

Südekum, Jens - 2006

We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent...

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Information and Learning in Oligopoly : An Experiment

Bigoni, Maria - 2013

choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play a repeated Cournot oligopoly, with limited …

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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets where the US has a comparative advantage feature...

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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael - 2010

This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...

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Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy : Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model

Pflüger, Michael - 2011

consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The …

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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments

Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011

We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...

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