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| Title: | | Tariffs and Firm-Level Heterogeneous Fixed Export Costs  |
| Authors: | | Guldager Jørgensen, Jan Schröder, Philipp J. H. |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | DIW-Diskussionspapiere 496 |
| Abstract: | | Recent literature on the workhorse model of intra-industry trade has explored heterogeneous cost structures at the firm level. These approaches have proven to add realism and predictive power. This note shows, however, that this added realism also implies that there may exist a positive bilateral tariff that maximizes national and world welfare. Applying one of the simplest specifications possible, namely a symmetric two-country intra-industry trade model with fixed export costs that are heterogeneous across firms, we find that the reciprocal reduction of small tariffs reduces welfare. |
| Subjects: | | Optimal tariff welfare intra-industry trade monopolistic competition protectionism |
| JEL: | | F15 F13 F12 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW DIW-Diskussionspapiere
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