BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Trade Development and Political Economy Present: Speaker Kamal Saggi Equilibrium parallel import policies and international market struct ure (coauthored with Santanu Roy) In a North-South vertically differentiat ed duopoly\, the authors derive equilibrium government policies towards pa rallel imports (Pis). By incorporating strategic interaction at the policy -setting stage and the product market\, the model sheds new light on (i) t he effects of PI policies on pricing behavior of firms and (ii) the interd ependence of national PI policies. If demand asymmetry across countries is sufficiently large\, the North forbids Pis to ensure its firm sells in th e South thereby generating international price discrimination – the South’ s most preferred market outcome - as the equilibrium. When demand structur es are relatively similar across countries\, the North permits Pis and uni form pricing - its most preferred market outcome - obtains. Kamal Saggi is Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University. His primary fields of in terest are international trade\, economic development\, and growth. Most o f his research is motivated by questions that lie at the interface of trad e and development. Two major themes underlying his current research are: t he inter-relationships between intellectual property protection\, foreign direct investment\, and international technology transfer\; and the econom ics of the multilateral trading system and the World Trade Organization (W TO). DTEND:20111005T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260422T015712Z DTSTART:20111005T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Trade Development and Political Economy presents: Kamal Saggi UID:RFCALITEM639124054326897848 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Trade Development and Political Economy Presen t: Speaker Kamal Saggi Equilibrium parallel import policies and internatio nal market structure (coauthored with Santanu Roy) In a North-South vertic ally differentiated duopoly\, the authors derive equilibrium government po licies towards parallel imports (Pis). By incorporating strategic interact ion at the policy-setting stage and the product market\, the model sheds n ew light on (i) the effects of PI policies on pricing behavior of firms an d (ii) the interdependence of national PI policies. If demand asymmetry ac ross countries is sufficiently large\, the North forbids Pis to ensure its firm sells in the South thereby generating international price discrimina tion – the South’s most preferred market outcome - as the equilibrium. Whe n demand structures are relatively similar across countries\, the North pe rmits Pis and uniform pricing - its most preferred market outcome - obtain s. Kamal Saggi is Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University. His pri mary fields of interest are international trade\, economic development\, a nd growth. Most of his research is motivated by questions that lie at the interface of trade and development. Two major themes underlying his curren t research are: the inter-relationships between intellectual property prot ection\, foreign direct investment\, and international technology transfer \; and the economics of the multilateral trading system and the World Trad e Organization (WTO).
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