We use a general equilibrium model to examine the welfare effect of domestic equity requirements on multinational firms in the presence of alternative types of trade instruments and varying degrees of the mobility of foreign capital. It turns out that, under quotas, raising equity requirements...

In this paper we examine the welfare effects of tax on foreign capital and tariff policies for a small open economy with sectoral unemployment. The individually and jointly optimal tax and tariff rates in the absence or presence of international tax credits are derived. A subsidy on foreign...

This paper uses a general equilibrium model incorporating rural-urban migration to analyze and contrast the short- and long-run effects of profit-sharing. Specifically examined are the effects of profit-sharing on rural-urban migration, the degree of competition among urban firms, and...

In this paper, the authors examine fiscal policy effectiveness under oligopolistic competition and increasing returns to scale. Their results indicate that fiscal policy is always contractionary in a classical, full-employment economy. Similarly, fiscal policy can reduce national income in a...

Utilizing a two-sector, general equilibrium model with variable returns-to-scale technology, the authors examine the effects of fiscal spending on the goods-price ratio, private income, government income, and national income in a neoclassical economy. The fiscal policy is contractionary when the...

This article examines a variety of impacts of the policy of releasing public land for agricultural in the Harris-Todaro economy for the short run as well as the long run. We contrast the effects for the economy under import quotas versus tariffs. Our analysis suggests that the land-grant policy...

This paper develops a general equilibrium model to examine the optimal level of environmental preservation in terms of its costs and benefits for a closed as well as an open economy. The optimal preservation policy for a closed economy is to tax the general population and use the tax revenue to...

This paper examines the welfare effects of inter-jurisdictional coordination of property taxes. Coordination in terms of compression, harmonization and radial changes of tax structure is considered. It is found that property tax coordination via uniform radial adjustments of taxes is in general...