Welfare-ranking ad valorem and specific tariffs under monopolistic competition

Autor: Jan Jørgensen, Philipp Schröder
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Canadian Journal of Economics. 38(1):228-241
Popis: Actual trade and tariff policy prefers ad valorem tariffs to specific tariffs. Yet in this paper we show that, in a setting of monopolistic competition, realizing a given restriction on imports via a specific tariff would generate more consumer utility than obtaining the same restriction via an ad valorem tariff.
Databáze: OpenAIRE