TY - JOUR
T1 - Does a larger country set a higher optimal tariff with monopolistic competition and capital accumulation?
AU - Naito, Takumi
N1 - Funding Information:
I am grateful to the Editor Eric Young and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. I also appreciate JSPS, Japan ( #19K01662 ) for financial support. All remaining errors are mine.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - In a two-country endogenous growth model with monopolistic competition and capital accumulation, we show that: (i) a country's optimal tariff is positive; and (ii) a more productive, and hence an economically larger, country sets a lower optimal tariff.
AB - In a two-country endogenous growth model with monopolistic competition and capital accumulation, we show that: (i) a country's optimal tariff is positive; and (ii) a more productive, and hence an economically larger, country sets a lower optimal tariff.
KW - Capital accumulation
KW - Endogenous growth
KW - Large country
KW - Monopolistic competition
KW - Optimal tariff
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U2 - 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110566
DO - 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110566
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85129960297
SN - 0165-1765
VL - 216
JO - Economics Letters
JF - Economics Letters
M1 - 110566
ER -