Welfare-Ranking Ad Valorem and Specific Tariffs Under Monopolistic Competition

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

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	Jørgensen, Jan Guldager ; Schröder, Philipp J. H.
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Monopolistischer Wettbewerb \| Monopolistic competition \| Zolltheorie \| Theory of tariffs \| Handelseffekt \| Trade effect

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (14 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 228-241, February 2005
Classification:	F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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