Scale Economies, Country Size, and Tariff Wars

The paper proceeds as follows. In the next section, we consider the welfare effects of a tariff in a general model with scale economies. As Markusen and Wigle (1989) note, theory cannot tell us the actual size of Nash equilibrium tariff rates, as these are expressed in terms of elasticities, which may be sensitive to where they are evaluated. ................
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