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Tax and Subsidy Policies in a Two‐Sided Market: An Application to the Digital Healthcare Industry
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 27, Issue 6, December 2025.ABSTRACT We model an online health marketplace hosting telehealth services as a two‐sided market facilitating patient‐doctor interactions. We show that, in the laissez‐faire equilibrium, a profit‐maximizing platform serves too few patients and doctors, compared to the social optimum, because it does not internalize cross‐group network externalities. We
Doriani Lingga +2 more
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Unit Vs. Ad Valorem Taxes in Multi-Product Cournot Oligopoly [PDF]
The welfare dominance of ad valorem taxes over unit taxes in a single-market Cournot oligopoly is well-known. This article extends the analysis to multi-market oligopoly.
Hennessy, David A., Lapan, Harvey E.
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Emissions Taxes Versus Tradeable Permits With Many Countries
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 27, Issue 6, December 2025.ABSTRACT Tradeable permits and emissions taxes are compared in a multi‐country global emissions game with perfectly competitive firms and a trans‐boundary production externality. In a one‐shot game, comparing welfare under the Nash equilibria, it is shown that tradeable permits are superior to emissions taxes.
Helmuts Azacis, David R. Collie
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Shifting on prices of per unit and ad valorem consumption taxes, estimation on prices of alcoholic beverages in France [PDF]
Economic theory states that on market with imperfect competition, per unit consumption taxes should induce a larger increase of prices than ad valorem consumption taxes.
Clément Carbonnier
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Managing Import Dependency Risks in Contexts of Polycrises: The Case of Jordan
Global Policy, Volume 16, Issue 5, Page 1111-1124, November 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines the critical role of trade facilitation in enhancing food security in Jordan, a country where 90% of essential food items are imported. Despite being a regional leader in implementing the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), Jordan faces persistent challenges due to logistical inefficiencies, institutional fragmentation,
Sara Ashour +2 more
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The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy in the Agri‐Food Sector
Agricultural Economics, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 1150-1167, November 2025.ABSTRACT The agri‐food sector is a key contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and is also the economic sector most at risk from climate change. The sector is heavily protected by government intervention, particularly through trade policy, which can have significant environmental implications by either promoting or hindering the trade of polluting ...
Valentina Raimondi +4 more
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On Revenue and Welfare Dominance of Ad Valorem Taxes in Two-Sided Markets [PDF]
A benchmark result in public economics is that it is possible to increase both tax revenue and welfare by making a monopoly subject to ad valorem taxes rather than unit taxes.
Kind, Hans Jarle +2 more
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Technology Choice and Unit vs Ad Valorem Tax [PDF]
, 2012 This paper compares the effects of unitary and ad valorem taxes in a homogeneous good market where two technologies are freely available. We find that, both in monopolies and Cournot oligopolies, unit taxes may be welfare superior to ad valorem taxes.
Francisco Galera +2 more
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Do Taxes Produce Better Wine? [PDF]
Theory predicts that unit taxes increase the quality consumed in a market since unit taxes reduce the relative price of high quality goods. Ad valorem taxes, on the other hand, have no effect on relative prices and should not affect product quality.
Martin Ljunge
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Unit Versus Ad Valorem Taxes : Monopoly In General Equilibrium [PDF]
We show that if a monopoly sector is imbedded in a general equilibrium framework and profits are taxed at one hundred percent, then unit (specific) taxation and ad valorem taxation are welfare-wise equivalent.
Blackorby, Charles, Murty, Sushama
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