Optimal Export Taxes with an Endogenous Location
Journal
Southern Economic Journal
Journal Volume
65
Journal Issue
4
Pages
940-952
Date Issued
1999
Date
1999
Author(s)
Mai, Chao-Cheng
Abstract
Export tax policy is one of the most debated issues in many developing countries. Those countries with strong natural advantages in the production of primary commodities, such as agricultural and livestock products, coffee, jute, rubber, and others, have attained at particular times a position as dominant suppliers in international trade. They have often used export taxes on those commodities to obtain foreign exchange and/or government tax revenues. This paper provides a normative analysis to examine how the inclusion of economic space affects export tax policy and to compare optimal export taxes under endogenous location with optimal export taxes under exogenous location, both in the short run and in the long run.
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