研討日期

2012年5月26日10:30 ~ 12:00

研討地點

台大社會科學院26教室

討論題目

題目

作者

文獻出處

Free Trade Agreement and Welfare in Spatial Competition

Te Cheng Lu

報告人

呂得成

參加人員

黃鴻、梁文榮、王光正、彭正浩、林晏如、張瑞雲、蔡明芳、高國峯、陳金盛、張志偉、周冰瑤、曾靜枝、丁虹仁、鍾暳陵、呂得成、吳定軒、黃品錚、許至乙、施姵全

摘要

We consider a three symmetric circular countries spatial competition and three horizontal differentiated goods model to illustrate the question of whether the static welfare effect of a FTA is good.

 First, when the non-discriminate tariff rate t is relatively low, the welfare of a FTA member is better than global free trade. On the contrast, when the tariff is relatively high, the welfare of global free trade is better than a FTA member. Second, given the non-discriminate tariff rate, the welfare of a FTA member country is always better than non-member country. Third, given the non-discriminate tariff rate, the welfare of hub country is always better than member country and the welfare of spoke country is better than a FTA member country when the trade barrier is relatively low.