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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18821| Title: | Inequality and relative reliance on tariffs : theory and evidence |
| Keywords: | H23 F13 ddc:330 inequality tariffs median-voter trade vertical differentiation Zollpolitik Einkommensverteilung Einkommensteuer Komparativer Kostenvorteil Median Voter Schätzung Theorie Welt |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
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| Description: | In this paper we construct a Ricardian model of trade in vertically-differentiated products between a developing country and the (developed) rest of the world. Despite labour being the only factor of production in this model, tariffs (in addition to income taxes) have distributional consequences because the high-quality imported varieties are consumed only by high-income households. The model predicts a U-shaped relationship between income inequality and the median-voter?s preferred reliance on tariffs versus income taxes in order to effect the desired redistribution. Using data from 44 countries we test for the existence of this U-shaped relationship by estimating a cross-sectional regression relating the ratio of the tariff rate over the tax rate to inequality and a set of control variables such as GDP per capita, openness, the degree of democracy and area dummies. We find that the model?s predictions are supported by the data. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18821 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18821 ppn:48519175X |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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