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Chao-cheng Mai
Microeconomics
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The impact of uncertain environmental regulatory policy on optimal plant location and anti-pollution technology selection
This paper considers pollution tax rate functions that decrease progressively with distance in order to examine in depth the effectiveness of pollution tax incentives. We find that pollution tax incentive poli...
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Symbiotic Production and Downstream Market Competition
It is well known that the double marginalization problem in the vertical relation can be eliminated by collusion, but it is undesirable because of the monopoly pricing outcome. This study addresses the role of...
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Pollution, Factor Ownerships, and Emission Taxes
This paper employs Cournot’s (1838) model of complementary goods to analyze the optimal emission taxation under joint and independent ownership with pollution. When the marginal damage is small (large), an emissi...
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Who Benefits from Pricing Regulations When Economic Space Matters?
Reinterpreting Hwang-Mai (AER, 1990) by both simplifying and generalizing their analysis in terms of two key demand parameters representing income and market size, we probe the welfare effects of spatial price di...
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Spatial pricing, optimal location and social welfare with consumer arbitrage
This paper provides a comprehensive comparison of the optimal location, output and welfare of spatial discriminatory pricing by integrating consumer arbitrage into the Hwang and Mai (Am Econ Rev 80:567–575, 19...
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Exclusion theorem in an efficiency wage model
This paper uses Shapiro and Stiglitz’s (1984) efficiency wage model embodying the firm’s choice of location to show the existence of an optimal intermediate location without assuming a transport rate that incr...
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On the optimal production and location of a labor-managed firm
This paper endeavors to introduce space into the theory of the Labor-Managed firm (LMF) and to investigate its optimal production and location decisions. It is shown that the degree of returns to scale plays a k...
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Tariffs and quotas in a spatial duopoly with a land market
This paper develops a spatial duopoly model by taking land consumption and mobile households into consideration and examines the respective effects of a tariff and a quota on an open economy with various pric...
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Demand and location decision of a monopsonistic firm
This paper examines the impact of demand on the location decision of a monopsonistic firm in the Weber-Moses triangle with one output and two inputs. When the distance of the plant location from the product m...
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A simple model of the choice of transport mode and plant location
This paper tries to ascertain whether or not the profit-maximizing transport mode will be different from the welfare-maximizing one, and investigates the impact of endogenizing the choice of transport mode on ...
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Optimum firm location under factor-price uncertainty
This paper presents a cost-minimizing location model to investigate the theoretical impacts and implication of factor-price uncertainty on the optimum location decisions of the firm in linear space. It will be...
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A comparative static analysis of intra-urban business location and land use
It is well-known that theories of urban land use and location, set forth by von Thünen and his followers, explained quite successfully the agricultural and residential locations. Unfortunately, there has been ...
