The importance of fixed costs in the design of trade policiesAn exercise in the theory of second best
- Luis Corchón Díaz
- Miguel González-Maestre
Any de publicació: 1994
Número: 16
Pàgines: 1-36
Tipus: Document de treball
Resum
In this paper we study the optimal trade policy in an oligopolistic market with a given number of quantity-setter firms. It is shown that under no fixed costs, the optimal trade policy displays certain characteristics but under fixed costs most of these characteristics no Longer hold.