{"title":"Kemp's Notorious Optimal Tariff Theory","authors":"Hak Choi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2273388","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper unveils a serious mistake committed by Kemp (1967). His positive tariff is actually an export subsidy. The corrected Kemp model implies that the whole optimal tariff theory must have been working in the wrong direction.","PeriodicalId":197385,"journal":{"name":"PSN: Import/Export Strategies (Topic)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PSN: Import/Export Strategies (Topic)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2273388","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper unveils a serious mistake committed by Kemp (1967). His positive tariff is actually an export subsidy. The corrected Kemp model implies that the whole optimal tariff theory must have been working in the wrong direction.