The importance of fixed costs in the design of trade policiesAn exercise in the theory of second best
- Luis Corchón Díaz
- Miguel González-Maestre
Year of publication: 1994
Issue: 16
Pages: 1-36
Type: Working paper
Abstract
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.