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We introduce a model of oligopoly dynamic pricing where firms with limited capacity face a sales deadline. We establish …
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empirical setting of technology adoption and to two classic dynamic oligopoly models, demonstrating that, in a wide variety of …
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Import tariffs tend to be higher for final goods than for inputs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as tariff …-maximizing tariffs are uniform across sectors. We show that tariff escalation can be rationalized on efficiency grounds in the presence … up the chain for final-good tariffs, input tariffs may drive final-good producers to relocate abroad, mitigating their …
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-1973. About three-quarters of the post-Smoot Hawley decline in U.S. tariffs, for example, can be attributed to higher import …
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This paper examines the optimal labor contract in a small open economy with incomplete markets under international price uncertainty. The effect on employment, wages, and profits of different realizations of the state of nature is studied and agents' preferences concerning the implementation of...
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We investigate the effects of higher tariffs on the current account.Tariffs may increase or decrease investment … depending on the capital intensity of the sector protected. We find that ther esponse of saving to tariffs issensitive to the …), saving fallswith higher tariffs. This result may, however, be reversed in the Blanchard-Yaarj type model in which consumers …
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. Noncooperative international policy equilibrium will be characterized by export cartels and rent-extracting tariffs …National governments have incentives to intervene in international markets, particularly in encouraging export cartels … and in imposing tariffs on imports from imperfectly competitive foreign firms. Although the optimal response to foreign …
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We propose and provide evidence for a new source of gains from trade: Firms invest in product differentiation to escape import competition. In the data and in the model, these investments are associated with increases in measured productivity, introduction of new goods, and shifts to...
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We study unanticipated tariffs on imports of intermediate goods in a setting with firm-to-firm supply relationships …
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