Browsing College of Human Sciences by Subject "L52"

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Learning by doing, precommitment and infant-industry protection

Leahy, Dermot ; Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-04-24)

This paper examines the implications for strategic trade policy of different assumptions about precommitment. In a dynamic oligopoly game with learning by doing, the optimal first-period subsidy is lower if firms cannot ...
Optimal corporation tax : an I.O. approach

Colombo, Luca ; Labrecciosa, Paola ; Walsh, Patrick P. (Trinity College Dublin. Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), 2005-10)

Our IO approach links optimal effective corporation tax rates to the nature of sunk costs within industries. Theory predicts that optimal effective corporation tax rates will be negatively related to industry specific sunk ...