Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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759417 | Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation | 2009 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
This paper considers an international trade under Bertrand model with differentiated products and with unknown production costs. The home government imposes a specific import tariff per unit of imports from the foreign firm. We prove that this tariff is decreasing in the expected production costs of the foreign firm and increasing in the production costs of the home firm. Furthermore, it is increasing in the degree of product substitutability. We also show that an increase in the tariff results in both firms increasing their prices, an increase in both expected sales and expected profits for the home firm, and a decrease in both expected sales and expected profits for the foreign firm.
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Authors
Fernanda A. Ferreira, Flávio Ferreira,