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Trade policy: Home market effect versus terms-of-trade externality

Campolmi, Alessia
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Fadinger, Harald
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Forlati, Chiara
2014
Journal Of International Economics

We study trade policy in a two-sector Krugman (1980) trade model, allowing for wage, import and export subsidies/taxes. We study non-cooperative trade policies, first for each individual instrument and then for the situation where all instruments can be set simultaneously, and contrast those with the efficient allocation. We show that in this general context there are four motives for non-cooperative trade policies: the correction of monopolistic distortions; the terms-of-trade manipulation; the delocation motive for protection (home market effect); the fiscal-burden-shifting motive. The Nash equilibrium when all instruments are available is characterized by first-best-level wage subsidies, and inefficient import subsidies and export taxes, which aim at relocating firms to the other economy and improving terms of trade. Thus, the dominating incentives for non-cooperative trade policies are the fiscal-burden-shifting motives and terms-of-trade effects. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.jinteco.2013.12.010
Web of Science ID

WOS:000337864200007

Author(s)
Campolmi, Alessia
Fadinger, Harald
Forlati, Chiara
Date Issued

2014

Publisher

Elsevier

Published in
Journal Of International Economics
Volume

93

Issue

1

Start page

92

End page

107

Subjects

Home market effect

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Terms of trade

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Tariffs and subsidies

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REVIEWED

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Available on Infoscience
August 29, 2014
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