Microeconomic tools - Eleni Iliopulos

Microeconomic tools
Eleni ILIOPULOS
PSE, University of Paris 1
Lecture 3
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This lecture
Aim of this Lecture:
Develop a simple formal framework to think about trade barriers
understand di¤erent types of trade barriers
Structure:
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(Very) basic supply and demand analysis
Open economy supply and demand analysis
Introducing an MFN tari¤ into the framework
Di¤erent types of trade barriers
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How is trade a¤ected by trade barriers (e.g. tari¤s)?
Economists
use a simple framework to see the main trade-o¤s (this lecture)
make it more ‘realistic’later (Chapter 6)
Simplifying assumptions:
perfect competition
constant returns to scale (CRS) technology
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Supply and demand
Demand
Recall your …rst Micro
course!
Demand curve:
at which price do you buy a
good? as long as p
mu
Demand curve: plots your
marginal utility (mu)
when price is p* you buy c*
Market demand:
aggregates over all
individual demand curves
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Supply and demand
Supply
Supply curve:
…rms face increasing
marginal costs (mc)
…rms produce as long as
p mc
for p* …rms produce c*
Market supply:
aggregates over all
individual supply curves
Attention: increasing mc is a
strong assumption!
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Welfare
Welfare analysis
- Di¤erence between p and mu
is ‘utility gain’ ! welfare
- when price falls: consumers
better o¤
2 parts:
(A) pay less for units
consumed at old price; area A
(B) gain surplus on the new
units consumed; area B.
Consumer surplus measures
the amount a consumer gains
from a purchase by the
di¤erence between the price he
actually pays and the price he
would have been willing to pay.
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Welfare
Producer Surplus:
- Di¤erence between p and mc
is what …rms gain on an
additional unit
- when price rises: …rms better
o¤
2 parts:
(A) get more money for units
produced at old price; area A
(B) gain surplus from sales of
additional units; area B
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Open economy
Next: Open Economy Supply & Demand Analysis
Import Demand Curve:
- how much would you (a nation) import for any given p ?
- assumption: imports and domestic production perfect substitutes
! gap between your consumption and your production: your imports
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Supply and demand in open economy
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Open economy, S vs D
Constructing the import demand curve MD:
- MD stands for import demand
- for P* home production = home consumption ! zero imports
- P’<P* less production; more consumption ! imports necessary!
- Graph: C’-Z’=M’Imports=di¤erence between production and
consumption
- MD curve plots C-Z for any possible P P*
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Open economy, S vs D
Welfare of Home:
- consider higher price: P’!P”
- consumers loose A+B+C+D; producers win A
- net loss shown by MD curve: B+C+D=C+E
- two e¤ects of a price change on welfare:
Border Price E¤ect: C (also: TOT or Trade Price E¤ect)
Import Volume E¤ect: E
But: if Home imports at price P’someone has to supply these imports at
price P’: the Foreign country
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Open economy: S vs D
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Constructing the import supply curve
- MS stands for import supply
- important: we consider the case where Home imports goods from
Foreign i.e. Foreign supplies imports to Home
- for P* home production = home consumption ! zero exports
- P’>P* ! less consumption; more production ! Foreign exports!
- Exports for P’: Z’-C’=X’
Note: Import supply (to Home) is the same as export demand Foreign is
facing (here we only have 2 countries)
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Foreign country
Welfare of Foreign:
- consider higher price: P’!P”
- consumers loose A+B; producers win A+B+C+D+E
- Net gain of Foreign shown by MS curve: C+D+E=D+F
Now we can combine MD and MS to …nd the equilibrium!
Think: what are the main equilibrium objects we want to know?
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MD/MS
The MD/MS diagram:
- Very simple
- Intersection of MS and MD
is the equilibrium
- Equilibrium price and imports
easy to see
But: production and
consumption?
! Just combine with the open
economy S&D diagram!
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Open economy, S vs D
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Open economy, S vs D
Exercise (in class)
1. Draw three graphs: Home S&D in the left graph and the Home MD
curve in the second graph. (small check: how would the Home XS curve
look like?)
Consider the case where Home is importing in equilibrium.
2. Draw Foreign S&D curves (right graph) and the corresponding MS
curve that are consistent with Home importing and Foreign exporting in
equilibrium!
For step 2: pay attention to the intercepts of the MS and MD curve and
their intersection (the equilibrium). Make sure that the equilibrium exports
in the MS/MD diagram are equal to the exports on the Foreign S&D
diagram and the imports in the Home S&D diagram. (otherwise this is not
an equilibrium.)
What would you have to do di¤erently in the case where Home exports?
How does this relate to the prices in autarky (the prices countries have
when no trade is possible)?
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Introducing tari¤s
So far: free trade
How would a tari¤ look in the MS/MD diagram?
Tari¤ drives a wedge between the price the producer gets ‘Border
Price’and the price the consumer pays ‘Domestic Price’
Most Favoured Nation Tari¤
The di¤erence goes to the Home government
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Introducing MFN tari¤s
MFN tari¤:
- European integration: preferential liberalization (tari¤ cuts only for
European partners)
- MFN tari¤ ‘Most Favored Nation’: the same tari¤ for all trade partners.
- we shall see the preferential case later
- for now take Foreign as a group of other countries and add a tari¤
Introducing a tari¤:
- tari¤: T Euro per unit have to be paid for each import
- now the border price di¤ers from the domestic price
- border price + T = domestic price
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Introducing MFN tari¤s into MS/MD
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Introducing MFN tari¤s into MS/MD
A tari¤ in the MD/MS diagram:
- note: border price 6= domestic price
! MD shifts up by T
New equilibrium:
- domestic price increases (but by less than T)
- border price decreases (Foreign gets less Euro per unit)
- imports decrease
- if you add an open economy S&D diagram, you’ll see that domestic
consumption falls, domestic production rises, foreign consumption rises,
foreign production falls
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Welfare
Home welfare e¤ects:
- loss of surplus -A-C
- tari¤ revenues A+B
overall e¤ect: B-C
Foreign welfare e¤ects:
- loss of surplus: -B-D
! Foreign loses -B-D
World welfare:
- loss of -C-D
- home ‘takes’B from Foreign
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MNF tari¤s
Distributional e¤ects of a tari¤: cui bono?
- MD/MS represents the surplus of ‘a country’
- Trade restrictions are political decisions ! who bene…ts, who looses
within a country matters!
Graph (next slide) shows:
- Home consumers lose E+C2+A+C1; Home producers gain E; Home
tari¤ revenue rises by A+B
- net change = B-C2+-C1 (this equals B-C in left panel).
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Distribution
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Types of tari¤s
Useful categorization:
Ask: who gets the rents?
- DCR (domestically captured rents) e.g. tari¤, import licence
- FCR (foreign captured rents), price undertakings, export taxes
- Frictional (no rents since barriers involve real costs of
importing/exporting), e.g. Swedish wipers on headlights
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Types of tari¤s
Net Home welfare
changes:
DCR = B-C
FCR = -A-C
Frictional = -A-C
Net Foreign welfare
changes:
DCR = -B-D
FCR = +A-D
Frictional = -B-D
Note: foreign may gain from
FCR.
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