The Macroeconomic Effects of Trade Tariffs : Revisiting the Lerner Symmetry Result /

We study the robustness of the Lerner symmetry result in an open economy New Keynesian model with price rigidities. While the Lerner symmetry result of no real effects of a combined import tariff and export subsidy holds up approximately for a number of alternative assumptions, we obtain quantitativ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Linde, Jesper
Other Authors: Pescatori, Andrea
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/151
Online Access:Full text available on IMF