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Trade warfare and sanctions in vertically related markets

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  • Chen, Fang-Yueh

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We examine how a tariff on imported final goods can increase the profit of a domestic upstream firm in the international input market. In vertically related markets without an input export restraint (IER), the tariff shrinks the total derived demand for inputs, and the existing literature predicts a negative relationship between the input price and tariff rate. In contrast to the literature, with IER, we show that the tariff rate is positively related to the input price and helps increase the profits of domestic upstream and downstream firms. To manipulate the trade warfare, we prove that the foreign input supplier has less incentive to raise the R&D level, but the domestic input producer has more incentive to raise the R&D level. The IER measure decreases the welfare of the home country and under some circumstances, it only improves the welfare of the rival country.

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  • Chen, Fang-Yueh, 2023. "Trade warfare and sanctions in vertically related markets," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 121(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:121:y:2023:i:c:s0264999323000172
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106205
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    Keywords

    Vertically integrated firm; Input export restraints; R&D; Strategic trade policy; Vertically related markets;
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    JEL classification:

    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives

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