The importance of fixed costs in the design of trade policiesAn exercise in the theory of second best

  1. Luis Corchón Díaz
  2. Miguel González-Maestre
Journal:
Working papers = Documentos de trabajo: Serie AD

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.