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Foreign Ownership and Optimal Discriminatory Tariffs under Oligopolistic Competition

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  • Chien-Hui Lee

    (Department of International Business, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

  • Jen-Yao Lee

    (Department of International Business, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

  • Leonard F.S. Wang

    (Wenlan School of Business,Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China)

Abstract

In this paper, we explore the trade policy issue incorporating foreign ownership from importing country into the export competition model to see how it affects the configuration of discriminatory tariff rate. We show that 1. When the portion of exporting firm’s equities owned by domestic investors is symmetric, the optimal trade policy may be an import subsidy and the importing country will provide a higher subsidy on the exporting firm with a lower cost of production; and 2. When the portion of equities of lower marginal cost country owned by domestic investors is sufficiently high in asymmetric equilibrium, the importing country will impose a lower tariff on the exporting firm with a lower cost of production without the production efficiency improvement, while a tariff will further decrease or turn out to be a subsidy with the production efficiency improvement. Proprietà straniera e dazi discriminatori ottimali in un regime di concorrenza oligopolistica In questo articolo esaminiamo le problematiche di politica commerciale inserendo il caso del paese importatore con proprietà straniera nel modello di esportazioni in concorrenza per osservare come questo influenza la configurazione dei dazi discriminatori. I risultati hanno evidenziato che: 1. Quando la porzione di azioni della ditta esportatrice posseduta da investitori interni è simmetrica, la politica commerciale ottimale può essere un sussidio all’importazione e il paese importatore fornirà un sussidio maggiore alla ditta esportatrice con un minor costo di produzione; 2. Quando i pacchetti di azioni del paese a minor costo marginale posseduti da investitori domestici è sufficientemente alto in un equilibrio asimmetrico, il paese importatore imporrà una tariffa minore sulla ditta esportatrice con un minor costo di produzione e senza miglioramenti di efficienza produttiva, mentre una tariffa diminuirà ulteriormente o diventerà un sussidio con il miglioramento dell’efficienza produttiva.

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  • Chien-Hui Lee & Jen-Yao Lee & Leonard F.S. Wang, 2021. "Foreign Ownership and Optimal Discriminatory Tariffs under Oligopolistic Competition," Economia Internazionale / International Economics, Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato Agricoltura di Genova, vol. 74(1), pages 97-114.
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    Keywords

    Foreign Ownership; Discriminatory Tariffs; Oligopolistic Competition;
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    JEL classification:

    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations

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