研討日期	2020年5月11日上午10:20~ 12:30
研討地點	國立臺灣大學609討論室
主講題目 Title of the paper	Corporate social responsibility, vertical product differentiation and international competition
作者 Authors of the paper	Jie Li, Xingtang Wang, Baomin Dong, Eden S. H. Yu
文獻出處 Journal, vol.(issue), pp	Rev Int Econ. 2019 (27) 1108–1125.
主講人	許至乙
參加人員	許至乙、林燕淑、施姵全、梁文榮、彭正浩、黃鴻、周宗翰、賴宜君、BUI DANG LONG、Dong Van Chung、DAMIANA SIMANJUNTAK、LUSUNG MKANDAWIRE
摘要 Abstract of the paper	Would a foreign firm’s consumer‐oriented corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities be rewarded by an importing country’s voluntary tariff reduction? The current paper addresses this question in an import‐competing duopoly model with vertical product differentiation. It is shown that the tariff will decrease if the foreign firm switches from a purely profit‐driven firm to a CSR firm. A consumer‐oriented CSR strategy will always hurt the domestic firm’s profit, whereas the relationship between the foreign firm’s profit and CSR sensitivity (the degree to which a firm cares about consumer welfare) is invertedly U‐shaped. When firms’ decisions to switch to CSR are endogeneized, only the foreign firm will become a CSR firm.