Modeling trade policies under alternative market structures

Giovanni Anania () and Margherita Scoppola

Journal of Policy Modeling, 2014, vol. 36, issue 1, 185-206

Abstract: The paper focuses on the importance of assumptions made about market structure and firm behavior in empirical trade policy analysis. The contribution to the relevant literature is 3-fold: first the paper develops two original models which incorporate imperfectly competitive market structures in a spatial modeling framework; then it proposes a procedure to identify the degree of market power in international trading which is consistent with observed prices and traded quantities, and applies it to the banana market; finally, it assesses how analysis of the implications of recent changes in the EU import regimes for bananas (the Economic Partnership Agreements and the December 2009 WTO agreement) is affected by the assumptions made on the prevailing market structure.

Keywords: Spatial models; Imperfect competition; Bananas; Economic Partnership Agreements; WTO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F13 F17 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2013.02.012

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