This note points out that the treatment by many texts of export subsidies in a competitive market contains an error. The error is shown to be present in both partial equilibrium and general equilibrium models. The paper also considers the ranking of export subsidies, production subsidies and a...

Countries often perceive themselves as being in competition with each other for profitable international markets. In such a world export subsidies can appear as attractive policy tools, from a national point of view, because they improve the relative position of a domestic firm in noncooperative...