競争的貿易の下での国際経済体制選択

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This paper constructs a general equilibrium model similar to the one considered by Arndt (1968) in which there are three goods and three countries including a free-trade country and two tariff-imposing countries that produce a common exportable good in different efficiencies and competitively export it to the free-trade country. By making a welfare comparison among five international economic regimes - multilateral free trade, a free trade area and customs union between the two tariff-imposing countries, the Nash equilibrium where each of them imposes its optimum tariff on its imports from the free-trade country, and unilateral tariff reduction by one of them, it derives a conclusion, which is the generalization of Arndt's, that regardless of whether the production efficiency in their export-good sectors is the same or not the free trade area is the best among the international economic regimes for the tariff-imposing countries.
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