Tariffs vs. Quotas as Revenue Raising Devices under Uncertainty.
This article examines the relative merits of tariffs and quotas as revenue raising devices in the presence of economic uncertainty. It has long been recognized that, provided the government auctions off the quota, the optimum pure tariff and the optimum pure quota are equivalent in a competitive wor...
| Publicado en: | American Economic Review Vol. 67; no. 5; pp. 975 - 982 |
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Dec77
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