Arbeitspapier

Tariffs vs Quotas in a Model of Trade with Capital Accumulation

This paper examines the equivalence among price-modifying and quantity fixing international trade policies in a differential game. We employ two well known capital accumulation dynamics for firms, due to Nerlove and Arrow and to Ramsey, respectively. We show that, in both cases, open-loop and closed-loop Nash equilibria coincide. Under the former accumulation the tariff-quota equivalence holds, but it does not under the latter. Moreover, in the Ramsey model, the country setting the trade policy prefers a quantityequivalent import quota to the adoption of the tariff.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE ; No. 392

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Lambertini, Luca
Calzolari, Giacomo
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)
(where)
Bologna
(when)
2000

DOI
doi:10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4909
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Lambertini, Luca
  • Calzolari, Giacomo
  • Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE)

Time of origin

  • 2000

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