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Welfare effects of tariffs and investment taxes

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  • J. Peter Neary

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This paper derives first- and second-best levels of optimal tariffs and taxes on internationally mobile capital in a general model of an open economy. When world prices are fixed (so that non-intervention is optimal), iso-welfare contours in tax-tariff space are shown to be ellipses centred around the origin which are tilted upwards if and only if importables are relatively capital-intensive. Under plausible assumptions, the same is true in the large open economy case, except that the contours are now ellipses centred around the non-zero first-best intervention point.

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  • J. Peter Neary, 1988. "Welfare effects of tariffs and investment taxes," Working Papers 198801, School of Economics, University College Dublin.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucn:wpaper:198801
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    1. Raimondos, Pascalis & Kreickemeier, Udo, 2006. "Concertina Reforms with International Capital Mobility," CEPR Discussion Papers 5888, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    2. Beladi, Hamid & Chao, Chi-Chur & Hazari, Bharat R. & Laffargue, Jean-Pierre, 2009. "Tourism and the environment," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 39-49, January.
    3. J. Neary, 2006. "International Trade and the Environment: Theoretical and Policy Linkages," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 33(1), pages 95-118, January.
    4. Chi-Chur Chao & Chong Yip, 2001. "Non-traded goods and optimal trade policy in a cash-in-advance economy," The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(1), pages 23-37.
    5. Anil Lal, 2001. "Goods and factors liberalization under increasing returns to scale," The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(2), pages 115-131.

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