The dynamic effects of contingent tariffs

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dinopoulos, E; Segerstrom, P
• 署名单位: Michigan State University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(98)00010-5
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 191-222
• 关键词: growth; R&D; TARIFFS

摘要

This paper develops a specific-factor variant of the 'quality ladders' model without the scale effect property. We analyze the dynamic effects of contingent tariffs that are imposed on imports whenever domestic firms lose their global technological leadership positions to foreign firms. Small 'rent-extracting' contingent tariffs do not benefit domestic firms that fall behind and are negatively related to the global rate of technological change in the short run. Large 'protective' contingent tariffs allow domestic technological laggards to capture the domestic market and are positively related to the global rate of technological change in the short run. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.