Market structure and the taxation of international trade

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The paper compares non-cooperative commodity taxation under the destination and origin principles under a variety of different assumptions about market structure. We consider a model of international duopoly with either quantity or price competition of firms and either segmented or integrated markets, and a monopolistic competition model with mobile firms. In each setting the international spillovers of tax policy are isolated and evaluated at the Pareto efficient tax rate. The sign of the net spillover, and thus the direction that commodity tax competition will take, depends critically on whether lump-sum taxes are available or commodity taxes must be used to finance the government budget.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Munich Discussion Paper ; No. 2003-23

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; Taxation and Subsidies: Efficiency; Optimal Taxation ; International Fiscal Issues; International Public Goods
• Subject: tax competition ; market imperfections ; international trade

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Haufler, Andreas ; Pflüger, Michael
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät
• (where): München
• (when): 2003

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.106
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/104105
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-106-2
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET