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Specific Excise Taxation in a Unionized Differentiated Duopoly

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  • Michele Santoni

    (University of Warwick and DEPA-Milan)

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This article considers the incidence and welfare effects of a specific excise tax in a unionized duopoly model with differentiated products, linear demand and cost curves, and wage bargaining. The article allows for both Cournot and Bertrand competition. The article shows that unionization lowers the degree of undershifting of the tax on the producer's net price, the marginal increase in the consumer's price, and the employment loss. The excess burden of an equal revenue tax is higher with a unionized labor market and higher with Cournot than Bertrand competition. Unionization increases the optimal output subsidy with wage bargaining.

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  • Michele Santoni, 2000. "Specific Excise Taxation in a Unionized Differentiated Duopoly," Public Finance Review, , vol. 28(4), pages 351-371, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pubfin:v:28:y:2000:i:4:p:351-371
    DOI: 10.1177/109114210002800404
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    JEL classification:

    • H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining
    • L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance

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