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Import Competition and Quality Upgrading
Amiti, Mary - 2014
at which they upgrade the quality of their products. We analyze the effect of import competition on quality upgrading …
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Implementing Results-Oriented Trade Policies : The Case of the Us-Japanese Auto Parts Dispute
Krishna, Kala; Morgan, John - 2022
Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show that by making threats to a linked market, a market share may be implemented with fairly weak informa- tional and administrative requirements. Moreover, such policies can be both...
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Anti-Competitive and Rent-Shifting Aspects of Domestic-Content Provisions in Regional Trade Blocks
Lopez de Silanes, Florencio; Markusen, James R.; … - 2021
Regional trade agreements must specify domestic-content rules (rules of origin) that define the conditions under which a good qualifies as 'domestic' and so may be freely traded within the block. The paper analyzes such rules, focussing in particular on oligopolistic industries in which foreign...
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Breaking the Spell with Credit-Easing : Self-Confirming Credit Crises in Competitive Search Economies
Gaballo, Gaetano - 2016
only locally around equilibrium outcomes. Policy is needed because competition deters the socially optimal degree of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998414
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Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation : Consumer Behavior and Competitive Effects
Salz, Tobias; Grunewald, Andreas; Low, David; Lanning, … - 2022
charges. Taking this behavior into account, we estimate an equilibrium model of dealer price setting and lender competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013406873
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A Theory of Multihoming in Rideshare Competition
Bryan, Kevin - 2018
We examine competition amongst ridesharing platforms where firms compete by choosing both the price of rides and the … involve monopoly or competition under various multihoming regimes, depending on the density of the city, and the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914722
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Industrial Policy and Competition
Aghion, Philippe - 2012
industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We … measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies, tax holidays, loans, and tariffs …. Measures to foster competition include policies that are more dispersed across firms in a sector or measures that encourage …
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The Welfare State and Competitiveness
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
In all modern industrial countries, redistributive expenditures are a larger component of the government budget than consumption of goods and services. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium, two- country model with exportables, importables and nontradables to study redistribution across...
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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
Greenstone, Michael - 2014
The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065447
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Foreign Competition and the UK
Lake, Arthur W. - 2021
host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …
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