Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75481 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 376
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper studies non-cooperative commodity taxation in a trade model with imperfect 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 international 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.
Subjects: 
Commodity taxation
imperfect competition
strategic trade policy
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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