Estimating Market Structure and Tax Incidence: The Japanese Television Market

Market Structure and Price Adjustment in the Iranian Tea Market

The Principle of Comprehensive Cost, Applied to the Relation between Market Structure and Excise Tax Incidence

Perfect competition or Bertrand competition cause price to equal marginal cost, so that excise tax incidence can be illustrated with the most basic supply-demand diagram. Some results are: • excise taxes are shared by suppliers and demanders according to their relative price elasticities • holding revenue fixed, it doesn’t matter (for supply price, demand price, and quantity traded) whether the...

Tax incidence with strategic firms in the soft drink market

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: H32 L13 Q18 I18 Keywords: Excise tax Ad valorem tax Tax incidence Strategic pricing Differentiated products Soft drinks Because soft drink (SD) consumption is considered to be a contributor to the 'epidemic' of obesity, there is a growing interest in evaluating the impact on SD consumption of alternative tax policies. In this paper, we propose a methodo...

Tax Incidence, Majority Voting and Capital Market Integration

We re-examine, from a political economy perspective, the standard view that higher capital mobility results in lower capital taxes a view, in fact, that is not confirmed by the available empirical evidence. We show that when a small economy is opened to capital mobility, the change of incidence of a tax on capital from capital owners to owners of the immobile factor may interact in such a way w...

market structure and price adjustment in the iranian tea market