Technology adoption, government policy and tariffication

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ederington, Josh; McCalman, Phillip
• 署名单位: University of Kentucky; University of Melbourne
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2013.02.007
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 337-347
• 关键词: technology adoption; TARIFFS; Quotas

摘要

We integrate trade policy into an open-economy model of technology adoption to investigate the impact of alternate trade barriers on the equilibrium diffusion of a cost-saving technology. It is shown that even when ad-valorem tariffs have a neutral impact on technology adoption, non-tariff barriers such as quotas can be used to affect the speed of technology diffusion in both the home and foreign countries. In addition, we demonstrate how, in an open-economy setting, tariffication (i.e., the conversion of quotas to ad-valorem tariffs) can lead to faster technology adoption world-wide. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.