Treating both free trade tax and after export tax foreign prices as floor prices, this paper analyzes autarky, free trade, export tax for a small county. The findings are in terms of competitive three adjustment weights

This paper analyzes tax competition between countries which differ in their country-specific risk. We show that the outcome of asymmetric tax competition crucially depends on the ability of multinational firms to shift profits. With high costs of profit shifting, higher-risk countries set lower...

In this paper, we study another approach to the profit shifting costs function of multinational profit shifting. First, we describe the modelling approaches of such costs functions and provide a synthesized analysis. More precisely, we investigate the involved resource costs that multinational...

In this paper, we develop a model to determine small business competitive advantages, industry competitiveness. We develop a process to internalize this capabilities to improve small to medium size business overall performance. The results suggests that business infrastructure, research and...

Strong lending relationships between banks and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the bank-based financial system of Germany. So far, they have been mainly described by the notion of an housebank and transactional features of long-term bank-customer relationships. The...

This paper investigates a model of endogenous product differentiation between large well established and small newly established firms. Small firms should have greater growth potential than large mature firms whose growth potential tapers off once they reach a certain size relative to the...