Lambertini, Luca ; Calzolari, Giacomo
(2000)
Tariffs vs Quotas in a Model of Trade
with Capital Accumulation.
Bologna:
Dipartimento di Scienze economiche DSE,
p. 15.
DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4909.
In: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE
(392).
ISSN 2282-6483.
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Abstract
This paper examines the equivalence among price-modifying and quantity fixing international trade policies in a differential game. We employ two well known capital accumulation dynamics for firms, due to Nerlove and Arrow and to Ramsey, respectively. We show that, in both cases, open-loop and closed-loop Nash equilibria coincide. Under the former accumulation the tariff-quota equivalence holds, but it does not under the latter. Moreover, in the Ramsey model, the country setting the trade policy prefers a quantityequivalent import quota to the adoption of the tariff.
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