Trade, Luxury Goods and a Growth Enhancing Tariff

Leonid Azarnert

No 5943, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This article presents a Ricardian model of trade with learning-by-doing to study the effect of barriers to trade in products with low growth potential on the long-run economic growth. The model shows that, when elasticity of demand for the product with a lower learning potential is greater than unity, a tariff imposed on this product can shift the demand toward the product with a higher learning potential, thus enhancing growth in the exporter economy. Therefore, although with some possible negative effect on the welfare in the short run, barriers for the export of natural luxury goods may be beneficial for developing economies in the long run, since they increase their incentive to develop sectors with higher growth potential.

Keywords: trade barriers; luxury goods; learning-by-doing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F11 F15 F41 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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