Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93965 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 255
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the effects of specific and ad valorem taxation in an industry with downstream and upstream oligopoly. We find that in the short run, i.e. when the number of firms in both markets is exogenous, the results concerning tax incidence tend to be qualitatively similar to models where the upstream market is perfectly competitive. However, both over- and undershifting are more pronounced, potentially to a very large extent. Instead, in the long run under endogenous entry and exit overshifting of both taxes is more likely to occur and is more pronounced under upstream oligopoly. As a result of this, a tax increase is more likely to be welfare reducing. We also demonstrate that downstream and upstream taxation are equivalent in the short run while this is not true for the ad valorem tax in the long run. We show that it is normally more efficient to tax downstream.
Subjects: 
Specific Tax
Ad Valorem Tax
Value-Added Tax
Tax Incidence
Tax Efficiency
Indirect Taxation
Imperfect Competition
Vertical Oligopoly
JEL: 
D43
H21
H22
L13
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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