The 150th meeting jointly organized with International Public Policy Seminar
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Date | 2023.1.20 Fri 13:30 - 15:00 |
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Contact | KITABAYASHI, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo |
The Osaka Workshop on Economics of Institutions and Organizations, OEIO, meets every month to exchange research ideas on institutional and organizational economics. Participants include both people specialized in theoretical research and those in empirical research. Topics of meetings might be about microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, or economic history..., whatever on institutional and organizational economics.
Date: Friday, January 20, 2023 13:30 to 15:00
Place: Will be held online
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Email: yuri-kitabayashi@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp <mailto:yuri-kitabayashi@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Presenter: Kentaro Inomata, Faculty of Management and Governance, Shumei University
Title: “Red-Tape Incentives in Oligopoly ”
Abstract: This study deals with the issue of red-tape barriers (RTBs), which is recently discussed by the OECD and WTO, using a simple oligopolistic trade model. Taking not only the tariff rate decisions but also RTBs decisions into account, we obtain the following results: (i) Under a free trade agreement (FTA), governments have an incentive for RTBs when the number of foreign firms is relatively small, but the incentive decreases as the number of foreign firms increases. These results suggest that when concluding an FTA, if incentives for RTBs are not taken into consideration at the same time, welfare may rather deteriorate, and further it is necessary to pay attention to domestic and international competitive levels.