Movements Toward Free Trade and Domestic Market Performance with Imperfect Competition

Tom Ross (tom.ross@commerce.ubc.ca)
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Tom Ross: University of British Columbia, http://economics.ubc.ca/

Carleton Industrial Organization Research Unit (CIORU) from Carleton University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper studies the response of a dominant domestic oligopoly to the reduction in the rate of a protective tariff. The issue here is whether the domestic market performance is improved through a movement toward free trade alone. Put another way, is free trade always a substitute for competition policy? We find that the lower tariff may lead to inferior domestic market performance. The direction of the change and its magnitude are functions of the shape of the import supply function, the degree of competition between oligopolists and whether or not entry is possible. Thus, there is reason to believe that a strong competition policy may, in some markets, be complemnentary to freer trade.

Pages: 25 pages
Date: 1986-10
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