IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/fth/stante/97-001.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Tariff Reforms under Foreign Factor Ownership

Author

Listed:
  • Olarreaga, M.

Abstract

In the presence of foreign factor ownership, the traditional welfare effects of tariff reforms have to be reconsidered to include income redistribution between national and foreign-owned factors. Bhagwati and Brecher (1980) showed that when the relative amount of foreign-owned factors in the host country is sufficiently large as to induce a change in the direction of the trade pattern, immiserising tariff reductions may occur. Here it is shown that in the mirror case when foreign-owned factors tend to promote the existing trade pattern (i.e. trade-promoting), similar results can be obtained. On the other hand, when foreign factors are trade-substituting, tariff reductions cannot be immiserising. Extending the analysis to the case of trade-diverting Free Trade Areas, it is shown that national welfare may improve if foreign factors are trade-substituting.

Suggested Citation

  • Olarreaga, M., 1997. "Tariff Reforms under Foreign Factor Ownership," Papers 97-001, Stanford - Institute for Thoretical Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:stante:97-001
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    TRADE ; INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS ; INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKET;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fth:stante:97-001. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Thomas Krichel (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/sistaus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.