Commodity Taxation and International Trade in Imperfect Markets

33 Pages Posted: 28 Jan 2001

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Andreas Haufler

University of Munich - Seminar for Economic Policy; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Guttorm Schjelderup

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Business and Management Science

Frank Stähler

University of Tuebingen - Department of Economics; University of Adelaide - School of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Date Written: December 2000

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.

Keywords: Commodity taxation, imperfect competition, strategic trade policy

JEL Classification: F12, H20

Suggested Citation

Haufler, Andreas and Schjelderup, Guttorm and Stähler, Frank, Commodity Taxation and International Trade in Imperfect Markets (December 2000). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=257774 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.257774

Andreas Haufler (Contact Author)

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CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

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Guttorm Schjelderup

Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Business and Management Science ( email )

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Norway

Frank Stähler

University of Tuebingen - Department of Economics ( email )

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D-72074 Tuebingen, 72074
Germany

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University of Adelaide - School of Economics ( email )

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Australia

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute) ( email )

Poschinger Str. 5
Munich, DE-81679
Germany

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