Tariffs and Firm-Level Heterogeneous Fixed Export Costs

Jan Jørgensen and Philipp Schröder

No 496, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: Recent literature on the workhorse model of intra-industry trade has explored heterogeneous cost structures at the firm level. These approaches have proven to add realism and predictive power. This note shows, however, that this added realism also implies that there may exist a positive bilateral tariff that maximizes national and world welfare. Applying one of the simplest specifications possible, namely a symmetric two-country intra-industry trade model with fixed export costs that are heterogeneous across firms, we find that the reciprocal reduction of small tariffs reduces welfare.

Keywords: Optimal tariff; Welfare; Intra-industry trade; Monopolistic competition; Protectionism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F13 F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 p.
Date: 2005
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