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Baake, Pio; Huck, Steffen - 2013

on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect … domestic food prices. Our first results is that export tariffs are strategic complements and that for poor harvests equilibrium …We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power …

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Crop failures and export tariffs

Baake, Pio; Huck, Steffen - 2013

on both the supply and demand side. Crops are stochastic and exporting countries can impose export tariffs to protect … domestic food prices. Our first result is that export tariffs are strategic complements and that for poor harvests equilibrium …We analyse a stylized model of the world grain market characterized by a small oligopoly of traders with market power …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331156

Can taxing foreign competition harm the domestic industry?

Lutz, Stefan - 1998

The answer to the question in the title is yes for the case of ad-valorem taxes, a foreign industry that produces a vertically differentiated good of higher quality, and costs that take the form of qualitydependent fixed costs for both the foreign and domestic firm. The domestic industry loses...

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A simple model of Brexit under oligopoly

Collie, David R. - 2017

trade under oligopoly. A hard Brexit where the UK trades according to WTO rules is shown to decrease total UK welfare, to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012429952

Tariffs and imports mis-invoicing under oligopoly

Biswas, Amit K.; Sengupta, Sarbajit - 2010

restrictions and export subsidies prevailing in LDCs. In this paper we focus on the import under-invoicing due to high tariff …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301359

Reciprocal Dumping with Bertrand Competition

Friberg, Richard; Ganslandt, Mattias - 2005

This paper examines if international trade can reduce total welfare in an international oligopoly with differentiated …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320114

International Coordination of Quality Standards and Vertical Product Differentiation

Lutz, Stefan - 2003

I study the influence of minimum quality standards in a partial-equilibrium model of vertical product differentiation and trade in which duopolistic firms face quality-dependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Three alternative standard setting arrangements are...

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Mutual Recognition of National Minimum Quality Standards may Support International Convergence

Lutz, Stefan - 2003

In a model of vertical product differentiation, duopolistic firms face qualitydependent costs and compete in quality and price in two segmented markets. Minimum quality standards, set according to the principle of Mutual Recognition, can be used to increase welfare. The results of the one-shot...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298134

Regulatory standards can lead to predation

Lutz, Stefan - 2005

I present a model of vertical product differentiation and exit where a domestic and a foreign firm face fixed setup costs and quality-dependent costs of production and compete in quality and price in the domestic market. Quality-dependent costs are quadratic in qualities, but independent of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301198

Reciprocal dumping with Bertrand competition

Friberg, Richard; Ganslandt, Mattias - 2005

This paper examines if international trade can reduce total welfare in an international oligopoly with differentiated …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281461