 Appropriation, Deterrence, and Trade Policy in a Simple Exchange EconomyNo 9801, Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics Abstract: When appropriation possibilities are overlooked, the predictions of standard trade models can be misleading. Trade theorists need a new class of models designed to investigate the effects of appropriation possibilities on exchange. Toward this end we incorporate appropriation possibilities into the simplest model of trade: the Edgeworth box model o f pure exchange. The model predicts that exchange will occur between a Defender and an Attacker, but the terms and volume of trade will be considerably different from the standard Edgeworth box. We also discover that when the power of attack is low, a tariff designed to punish Attacker's appropriation causes welfare of both countries to increase and the volume of trade to expand. When the power of attack is high, however, a tariff penalty against appropriation causes the piracy rate to increase and the security of property to fall due to the terms-of-trade effect of the tariff. The model has applications to classical piracy, present-day software piracy, and other markets where exchange, defense, and appropriation are intertwined. Keywords: appropriation; property rights; trade; tariff; piracy; deterrence; Edgeworth box (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Economics Letters, Vol 63:1, 1999, pp. 77-83. Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hcx:wpaper:9801 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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