Hump-shaped Cross-price Effects and the Extensive Margin in Cross-border Shopping

Mapping Cross-Border Margin Requirements

The Financial Crisis of 2007-8 triggered a large-scale overhaul of European and Global Financial Services Regulation. Financial institutions are now subject to more far-reaching and onerous regulation, as well as the prospect of increased regulatory fines. The European Market Infrastructure Regulation (“EMIR”) (and parallel regimes in other G20 members countries) is part of this new landscape. ...

Cross - border shopping and the ‘ bandwidth of familiarity ’ :

Spatial Competition and Cross-border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries

This paper investigates competition between jurisdictions in the context of cross-border shopping for state lottery tickets. We rst develop a simple theoretical model in which consumers choose between state lotteries and face a trade-o between travel costs and the price of a fair gamble, which is declining in the size of the jackpot and the odds of winning. Given this trade-o , the model predic...

Cross-Border Shopping: Do Consumers Respond to Taxes or Prices?

Differences in tax rates create incentives for consumers to cross the border to shop in a low tax environment. This paper uses a unique panel data set of consumer financial transactions to study if consumers living closer to the border are less likely to buy in the home country in comparison to consumers living further away from the border. We exploit the tradeoff between distance, price and qu...

The position of cross-border and international academic mobility in the selected Iranian universities

Moving towards the entrepreneurial university is one of the key strategies to promote social responsibility and accountability of the university and achieve the goals of social change and sustainable development, and the entrepreneurial university is one of the important scenarios for effective participation of universities in the local, regional and national development process and strong pres...