Intergenerational Welfare Effects of a Tariff under Monopolistic Competition

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 313-346

  Bettendorf, Leon J H ^a   Heijdra, Ben J ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Industrial policy; Intergenerational welfare effects; International trade; Love of variety; Monopolistic competition; Returns to scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346607170     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01257926     Document Type: Article

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