Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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962769 | Journal of International Economics | 2010 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
This paper revisits the effects of tariffs and quotas in a competitive setting where three results are thought to hold. These are: that quotas are equivalent to specific tariffs, the form of tariffs-specific or ad valorem-does not matter, and that the way in which a quota is allocated has no real effects as it only affects the allocation of rents, not their size. We show that all three of these results are false when entry/exit is endogenous. Equivalence holds only if the initial level of entry is set at the long-run level under the quota.
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Authors
Kala Krishna, Ling Hui Tan,