研討日期

2012年8月4日10:30 ~ 13:00

研討地點

台灣大學社會科學院   第26教室

題目

Tariffs and Trade Liberalization with Network Externalities

作者

Kenji Fujiwara

文獻出處

Australian Economic Papers

報告人

林晏如

參加人員

黃鴻、林燕淑、王光正、陳宏易、張瑞雲、彭正浩、高國峯、陳金盛、林晏如、涂光億、

丁虹仁、鍾暳陵、林季萱、呂得成、周冰瑤、周品旭、吳宜謙、黃品錚、許至乙、施姵全

摘要

 This paper constructs a reciprocal market model of intra-industry trade in network goods to consider the implications of network externalities for an optimal tariff policy and the welfare effects of bilateral tariff reductions. This paper shows that the degree of network externalities nontrivially affects the sign of the Nash equilibrium tariff. The Nash equilibrium tariff is positive as network externality is small; while tariff is negative as network externality is large. Moreover, the tariff is increasing (decreasing) in network externalities as network externality is small (large). They also prove that network externalities amplify the gains from tariff reduction. These results help better understand the implications of trade-related issues in network industries.

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