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Deregulation of the Nordic Power Market and Environmental Policy.

Amundsen, E.S.; Nesse, A.; Tjotta, S. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 1999

A common Nordic power market will reduce total CO2 emissions in the Nordic countries as compared to a situation of autarky and, thus, reduce the aggregate cost of complying to strict national CO2 emission targets. A common market for CO2 emissions permits may reduce the aggregate cost further,...

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Import Restraints and Quality Choice under Vertical Differentiation.

Boccard, N.; Wauthy, X. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998

We consider the following stage game: a domestic government chooses an import quota, the a domestic and a foreign firm choose their quality level before engaging a price competition. We first show that the indirect effect of the quota on the sales of the domestic producer are different depending...

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Pricing Policy Under Double Market Power: Madagascar and the International Vanilla Market.

De Melo, J.; Olarreaga, M.; Takacs, W. - Institut d'Economie et Econométrie, Université de Genève - 1996

This paper uses a price-leadership model of the international vanilla market to study the welfare consequences of alternative pricing policies for Madagascar, the leader in the vanilla market, that also controls domestic production through a single-channel marketing system.

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Is "Getting the Price Right" Always Right? How Trade Liberalization can Fail.

Gaitan, B.; Pavel, F. - 2000

We present a general equilibrium model with oligopsonistic market structure in one of the sectors. Buyers of inputs can set the price of inputs by being involved in rent seeking activities. The framework developed is applied to the Bulgarian economy in particular to the agro-food chain.

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Pricing Policy Under Double Market Power: Madagascar and the International Vanilla Market.

De Melo, J.; Olarreaga, M.; Takacs, W. - Geneva School of Economics and Management, Université … - 1996

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European Antidumping Policy and Firms' Srategic Choice of Quality.

Vandenbussche, H.; Wauthy, X. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1999

In this paper, the authors consider a European industry characterized by vertical product differentiation. Using a two-stages model with quality choice made before price competition takes place, the authors show that EU antidumping policy that takes the form of price-undertaking offers a...

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An Account of Global Factor Trade.

Davis, D.R.; Weinstein, D.E. - Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), … - 1998

A half-century of empirical work on the factor proportions theory has identified "paradoxes" and "mysteries", but has … failed to devise simple amendments that bring theory and data inot reasonable congruence. Our study considers standard and … by this data, suffice for a striking confirmation of the HOV theory. Countries export the services of abundant factors …

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A Unified Treatment of Horizontal Direct Investment, Vertical Direct Investment, and the Pattern of Trade in Goods and Services

Markusen, James R.; Venables, Anthony J.; Eby Konan, Denise - 1996

This paper contributes to research endogenizing multinational firms in general-equilibrium trade models. We attempt to integrate separate contributions on horizontal multinationals which produce the same final product in multiple locations, with work on vertical multinationals, which...

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Lecture Notes on International Trade and Imperfect Competition

Venables, Anthony - 1996

These notes discuss some of the main results and models from the theory of international trade under imperfect …

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