This paper provides a welfare comparison of a tariff with a combination of a production subsidy to, and a commodity tax on, an import-competing commodity in a two-country economy. We treat some plausible situations of industry protection, including where the initial tariff is above the optimal tariff, where a certain output level of a tariff-imposed commodity must be maintained, and where there...

Past research in marketing and psychology suggests that pricing structure may influence consumers’ perception of value. In the context of two commonly used pricing schemes, pay-peruse and two-part tariff, we evaluate the impact of pricing structure on consumer preferences for access services. To this end, we develop a utility-based model of consumer retention and usage of a new service. A notab...

In the last two years, mainly practitioners published newspapers and technical reports outlining the benefits and obstacles of Cloud Computing. Scientific research is limited to technical issues of Cloud Computing so far. Marketing and economic issues have been barely discussed in literature. Especially, customer considerations and pricing are only discussed vaguely in industry reports. A detai...

When unemployment arises, a country often imposes an import tariff since it supposedly expands the market share of domestic firms and encourages them to hire more workers. However, such a policy improves the current account and hence appreciates the home currency. Consequently, home products lose competitiveness against foreign products and eventually employment decreases, contrary to the prior...

Building on the experience of NAFTA, and assuming that rules of origin (RoO) negotiated under NAFTA are likely to resemble those that would be agreed upon in an FTAA, this paper discusses how different RoO criteria would affect different Southern partners in a multi-stage production setting. Next, we use a combination of parametric and non-parametric methods to estimate the costs of RoO under N...