Essays on International Trade, Trade Barriers, and Oligopolistic Competition

Rudsinske, Jonas Fabian

dc.contributor.advisor	Kreickemeier, Udo Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.author	Rudsinske, Jonas Fabian
dc.date.accessioned	2022-06-14T13:30:39Z
dc.date.available	2022-06-21T00:50:12Z
dc.date.issued	2022-06-14
dc.identifier.uri	http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?ediss-11858/14095
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-9291
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.53846/goediss-9291
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc	330	de
dc.title	Essays on International Trade, Trade Barriers, and Oligopolistic Competition	de
dc.type	cumulativeThesis	de
dc.contributor.referee	Kreickemeier, Udo Prof. Dr.
dc.date.examination	2022-06-01	de
dc.description.abstracteng	Empirical evidence suggests both that market power increased considerably since 1980 (e.g. De Loecker et al., 2020) and that firms differ in destination-specific trade barriers (e.g. Munch and Nguyen, 2014). Motivated by these insights, this thesis develops a trade model that allows to analyze the effects of asymmetric policies in general oligopolistic equilibrium, uses this framework to study corporate taxation, tax-motivated transfer pricing and trade policy, and provides evidence that personal characteristics of top managers like nationality and gender can give rise to firm heterogeneity in destination-specific trade barriers. The first chapter develops a trade model with segmented markets that allows to analyze oligopolistic behavior across asymmetric countries. Firms' oligopolistic behavior has macro-level effects when countries are asymmetric. This can induce deviations from the law of one price, which gives rise to terms-of-trade based international shifts in consumption and welfare. Corporate taxation and tax-motivated transfer pricing are incorporated into this model in the second chapter. Without transfer pricing, a higher profit tax rate shifts welfare towards the taxing country. Tax-motivated transfer pricing introduces an additional incentive for all firms to export and, consequently, to expand production, such that real wages rise in both countries. As tax income shifts, consumption is relocated from the high- to the low-tax country. Import tariffs in this setting are studied in the third chapter. Their anti-competitive effect reduces labor demand as firms want to shorten supply. Unilaterally raising the import tariff increases domestic welfare at the foreign country's expense, but also favors profit incomes relative to labor incomes, as real wages fall. The fourth chapter shows a destination-specific pro-trade effect of top managers' nationality. The effect is especially pronounced for institutionally distant destinations, which can be seen as bridging the gap between institutionally dissimilar countries. Likewise, the effect is more pronounced for destinations with less developed institutions, which indicates that manager connections help overcoming trade barriers created by low institutional quality. Finally, the fifth chapter uncovers trade-reducing effects of institutional discrimination against female managers in destination markets. This barrier exists for firm internationalization on the micro and international trade on the macro level. Importantly, it might give rise to disadvantages for female managers even in non-discriminatory countries.	de
dc.contributor.coReferee	Schwager, Robert Prof. Dr.
dc.contributor.thirdReferee	Kis-Katos, Krisztina Prof. Dr.
dc.subject.eng	factor income distribution	de
dc.subject.eng	gender discrimination	de
dc.subject.eng	general oligopolistic equilibrium	de
dc.subject.eng	globalization	de
dc.subject.eng	gravity	de
dc.subject.eng	institutions	de
dc.subject.eng	international policy transmission	de
dc.subject.eng	international trade	de
dc.subject.eng	labor share	de
dc.subject.eng	oligopoly	de
dc.subject.eng	profit shifting	de
dc.subject.eng	strategic trade	de
dc.subject.eng	trade barriers	de
dc.subject.eng	trade policy	de
dc.subject.eng	transfer pricing	de
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-ediss-14095-9
dc.affiliation.institute	Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät	de
dc.subject.gokfull	Wirtschaftswissenschaften (PPN621567140)	de
dc.description.embargoed	2022-06-21	de
dc.identifier.ppn	1807118517
dc.identifier.orcid	0000-0002-4905-4021	de

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