Commodity Taxation and international Trade in Imperfect Markets

Andreas Haufler (), Guttorm Schjelderup () and Frank Staehler
Additional contact information
Frank Staehler: University of Kiel, http://cofe.uni-konstanz.de

No 00-32, CoFE Discussion Paper from Center of Finance and Econometrics, University of Konstanz

Abstract: This paper studies non-cooperative commodity taxation in a trade model with im-perfect competition and trade costs. Nationally optimal tax policy simultaneously tries to correct the domestic distortion from imperfect competition and to shift rents to the home country. Importantly, this trade-off depends qualitatively on the inter-national commodity tax regime in operation. For low levels of trade costs, we show that production-based commodity taxes dominate from a global welfare perspective, but this ranking is reversed in favor of consumption-based taxation when trade costs become sufficiently high.

Date: 2000-10
View list of references View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://cofe.uni-konstanz.de/Papers/dp00_32.pdf Main-Text (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Commodity Taxation and International Trade in Imperfect Markets (2000)
Working Paper: Commodity Taxation and International Trade in Imperfect Markets (2000)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:knz:cofedp:0032

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://cofe.uni-konstanz.de

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CoFE Discussion Paper from Center of Finance and Econometrics, University of Konstanz
Contact information at EDIRC.
Series data maintained by Ingmar Nolte ().