Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "JEL Classification Number: F10"

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    • Equilibrium parallel import policies and international market structure 
      Roy, Santanu; Saggi, Kamal (Vanderbilt University, 2011)
      In a North-South vertically differentiated duopoly, we derive equilibrium government policies towards parallel imports (PIs). By incorporating strategic interaction at the policy-setting stage and the product market, the ...
    • Market power in the global economy: the exhaustion and protection of intellectual property 
      Saggi, Kamal (Vanderbilt University, 2011)
      This paper analyzes economic linkages between the exhaustion and protection of intellectual property. We consider a North-South model, where a firm that enjoys monopoly status in the North by virtue of an intellectual ...
    • Pampered Bureaucracy and Trade Liberalization 
      Stroup, Caleb; Zissimos, Ben (Vanderbilt University, 2010)
      This paper shows how a nation's elite maintain ownership of their wealth by creating a `pampered bureaucracy.' The elite thus divert part of an otherwise entrepreneurial middle class from more productive manufacturing ...
    • Pampered Bureaucracy, Political Stability, and Trade Integration 
      Stroup, Caleb; Zissimos, Benjamin (Vanderbilt University, 2011)
      This paper shows how, under threat of revolution, a nation's elite are able to maintain political stability and hence ownership of their wealth by creating or expanding a `pampered bureaucracy.' The elite thus divert part ...
    • Strategic Competition and Optimal Parallel Import Policy 
      Saggi, Kamal; Roy, Santanu (Vanderbilt University, 2011)
      This paper shows that parallel import policy can act as an instrument of strategic trade policy. We demonstrate this result in two-country international duopoly where a domestic monopolist competes with a rival firm in the ...