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Demand Patterns, Demographic Change and Economic Growth

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1969 83(1), 110 open access
I. Introduction, 110. — II. The model, 112. — III. The model and Philippine experience, 115. — IV. Demand patterns, demographic change, and economic growth, 120. — V. Implications and conclusions, 124. — Appendix, 125.

Gresham's Law and the Demand for NRU's and SDR's

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1969 83(1), 163
Journal Article Gresham's Law and the Demand for NRU's and SDR's Get access Henry N. Goldstein Henry N. Goldstein University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 83, Issue 1, February 1969, Pages 163–166, https://doi.org/10.2307/1884000 Published: 01 February 1969

International Capital Movements and the Theory of Tariffs and Trade: Comment

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1969 83(3), 524
Journal Article International Capital Movements and the Theory of Tariffs and Trade: Comment Get access Ken-ichi Inada, Ken-ichi Inada Tokyo Metropolitan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Murray C. Kemp Murray C. Kemp University of New South Wales Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 83, Issue 3, August 1969, Pages 524–528, https://doi.org/10.2307/1880538 Published: 01 August 1969

Negative Value Added and the Theory of Effective Protection

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1969 83(3), 415 open access
I. Introduction, 415. — II. An analytical interpretation of negative value added, 425. — III. Negative value added and nonzero elasticity of substitution, 427. — IV. The measurement of effective protection when value added is negative, 430. — V. Conclusion, 432.

Ranking of Tariffs Under Monopoly Power in Trade

Quarterly Journal of Economics 1969 83(2), 330
In a recent paper in this Journal J. Bhagwati and M. C. Kemp considered the question of ranking tariffs in the presence of monopoly power in trade.' Under the assumption that the exportable goods in the tariff-imposing country were not inferior, the following proposition was established: the country could raise its welfare monotonically by raising tariffs up to a certain maximum (corresponding to the optimum tariff), and beyond this point a further tariff increase would monotonically reduce welfare to the point where protection was prohibitive. The demonstration was based on the implicit assumption that the foreign offer curve faced by the tariff-imposing country was well-behaved. This, however, need not be the case. Even if we assume (in the spirit of the Bhagwati-Kemp paper) that there are no internal commodity price distortions, factor price distortions, or imperfections in the redistribution of income, the foreign country may have a tariff. It then becomes possible, in the presence of inferior goods, for the foreign offer curve to yield multiple equilibria at given terms of trade. In this case it is easy to show that the Bhagwati-Kemp theorem no longer holds. Assume that the foreign country has a tariff and that its export good is strongly inferior. Then its offer curve will have all the properties described by Bhagwati and Kemp in their discussion of the tariff-imposing or country. This is illustrated in Figure I. With the home country's offer curve intersecting it from above in the backward-bending part of the curve, welfare will decline if a small tariff is imposed. As drawn, welfare continues to decline for tariffs up to a rate t, and then increases between the tariff rate t, and tariff rate t2 (while remaining below the free trade level). The welfare level then declines steadily for higher rates until at rate t, the tariff becomes just prohibitive. The corresponding tariff welfare curve is shown in Figure II. Note that, rather than impose