The Optimal Tariff for Public Good and Public Input Provision
The Optimal Tariff for Public Good and Public Input Provision
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公共物品和公共投入供给的最优关税
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10.1177/109114219702500107
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发表时间：
1997
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通讯作者：
Michael S. Michael
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作者：
Michael S. Michael
众所周知，当关税收入一次性分配给消费者时，对一个小国来说，最好的政策是自由贸易，因为关税会降低其福利。然而，许多欠发达国家利用关税收入为提供公共产品或公共投入提供资金，如技术培训或基础设施。本文建立了一个小型开放经济模型，该模型包含三种私人商品--一种是进口的，一种是出口的，还有一种是非贸易的--政府利用关税收入为公共产品或投入的提供提供资金。在此框架下，本文推导了公共产品和公共投入提供的最优价格公式和效率规则，并将后者与消费税提供公共产品时的效率规则进行了比较。
It is well known that when tariff revenue is distributed to consumers as a lump sum, the optimum policy for a small country is free trade because a tariff reduces its welfare. Many less-developed countries, however, use tariff revenue to finance the provision of public goods or public inputs, such as technical training or infrastruc ture. This article builds a small open economy model with three private goods—one imported, one exported, and one nontraded—and where the government uses tariff revenue to finance the provision of a public good or input. Within this framework, the article derives the optimum tariff formulas and efficiency rules for public good and public input provision and compares the latter with the efficiency rules when the provision of public goods is financed with consumption taxes.