Arbeitspapier

Commodity Taxation and international Trade in Imperfect Markets

This paper studies non-cooperative commodity taxation in a trade model with im-perfect competition and trade costs. Nationally optimal tax policy simultaneously tries to correct the domestic distortion from imperfect competition and to shift rents to the home country. Importantly, this trade-off depends qualitatively on the inter-national commodity tax regime in operation. For low levels of trade costs, we show that production-based commodity taxes dominate from a global welfare perspective, but this ranking is reversed in favor of consumption-based taxation when trade costs become sufficiently high.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CoFE Discussion Paper ; No. 00/32

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Verbrauchsteuer
Steuerwettbewerb
Neue Außenhandelstheorie
Strategische Handelspolitik
Ursprungslandprinzip
Steuerwirkung
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Haufler, Andreas
Schjelderup, Guttorm
Stähler, Frank
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
University of Konstanz, Center of Finance and Econometrics (CoFE)
(where)
Konstanz
(when)
2000

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-5820
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Haufler, Andreas
  • Schjelderup, Guttorm
  • Stähler, Frank
  • University of Konstanz, Center of Finance and Econometrics (CoFE)

Time of origin

  • 2000

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