A note on location and the output effect of ad-valorem taxes under free entry oligopoly

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  • Yeung-Nan Shieh Department of Economics San Jose State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.4.1.2015.30-35

Resumen

This paper examines the output effect of an ad-valorem tax of undifferentiated oligopolistic firms in the Weber-Moses triangle.  It shows that an increase in the ad-valorem tax will increase each firm’s output but may increase the number of firms and total output of firms if the inverse demand function is linear, concave or not too convex. This result is different from the well-known Tanaka’s result in non-spatial economy. It indicates that oligopolistic firm’s location decision has important influence on the output effect of the ad-valorem tax.

 

Biografía del autor/a

Yeung-Nan Shieh, Department of Economics San Jose State University

Professor of Economics at San Jose State University

Rank: Full Professor

Ph.D. Texas A&M University (1980)

MA. University of Rochester (1976)

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2015-03-17

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Shieh, Y.-N. (2015). A note on location and the output effect of ad-valorem taxes under free entry oligopoly. Economics and Business Letters, 4(1), 30–35. https://doi.org/10.17811/ebl.4.1.2015.30-35

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Vol. 4 Núm. 1 (2015): March

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