Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/159059 
Year of Publication: 
1995
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Quaderni - Working Paper DSE No. 216
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Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche (DSE), Bologna
Abstract: 
This paper introduces a trade cost asymmetry into the Core-periphery model to investigate the location effects of protection. Trade costs arise from the active choice of governments. In the case of a country that can decide the level of barriers to imports without retaliation by the other country, unilateral protection is shown to attract firms and to increase the welfare of residents. Since all countries face a rational incentive to unilateral protection, noncooperative behaviour may lead to an inefficient equilibrium with too much protection.
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