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Performance Contingent Protection

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  • William H. Kaempfer
  • Edward Tower
  • Thomas D. Willett

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In this paper we ask how to construct a tariff or quota schedule which depends on the behavior of a domestic monopsonistic monopolist in order to achieve the best tradeoff between two objectives of a government. We consider various political and economic tradeoffs which could face the policy maker: aggregate welfare versus industry profits, output and imports; and trade barrier revenue versus industry profits and domestic price. In all cases considered, performance contingent protection which takes the form either of a tariff which depends on domestic output or a quota which depends on the price charged is generally superior to a fixed tariff or quota and is sufficient to achieve optimality.

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  • William H. Kaempfer & Edward Tower & Thomas D. Willett, 1989. "Performance Contingent Protection," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 1(3), pages 261-275, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecopol:v:1:y:1989:i:3:p:261-275
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0343.1989.tb00017.x
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