TARIFFS AND IMPORTS MISINVOICING UNDER OLIGOPOLY

Group Purchasing , Nonlinear Tariffs , and Oligopoly By Howard P . Marvel

Loyalty discounts are nonlinear tari s that condition rebates or marginal prices on meeting aggregate purchase or market share targets. ese discounts are widespread, and are o en the impetus for consumers to form buying groups, or group purchase organizations (GPOs). is papermodels the competitive e ects of the introduction of a GPO to amarket for which the GPO’s member preferences are horizont...

Determinants of Trade Misinvoicing

Trade misinvoicing should be seen as an element of de facto capital account openness. Traditional explanations for trade misinvoicing—high custom duties and weak domestic economies—are less persuasive in a world of high growth emerging markets that have low trade barriers. We construct a 53-country data set over a 26 year span, covering both industrialized and developing countries, to study the...

A Theory of Favoritism under International Oligopoly

CIRANO Le CIRANO est un organisme sans but lucratif constitué en vertu de la Loi des compagnies du Québec. Le financement de son infrastructure et de ses activités de recherche provient des cotisations de ses organisations-membres, d'une subvention d'infrastructure du ministère de la Recherche, de la Science et de la Technologie, de même que des subventions et mandats obtenus par ses équipes de...

Opening and Closing Technology Gaps under Safeguard Tariffs

I explore the country-speci city of safeguard tari protection for a country that is experiencing a surge of imports from a trading partner with a new technology. I nd that raising the tari against all trading partners welfare-dominates a targeted country-speci c tari increase. This arises because a broad tari increase is more e ective at helping the importing country close the technology gap it...

Consumer Dynamic Usage Allocation and Learning Under Multipart Tariffs