Arbeitspapier

Revenue Motives and Trade Liberalization in an Endogenous Tariff Model

Governments in more developed economies partially compensate import-competing industries when world prices fall, i.e. they lean against the wind. In less developed economies we often observe liberalization in response to the same shock. We use a political-support maximization model with revenue motives to derive conditions under which a rational policy-maker would respond to lower world prices by reducing tariff protection for an import-competing industry. An initial tariff that exceeds the maximum revenue level proves necessary but not sufficient for politically optimal liberalization following a fall in the world price of the importable good.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 1994-12

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Thema
policy
protection
reform
tariffs
trade liberalization

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gang, Ira N.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Rutgers University, Department of Economics
(wo)
New Brunswick, NJ
(wann)
1994

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gang, Ira N.
  • Rutgers University, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 1994

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