Trade Intermediaries and the Tariff Pass-through

摘要: This paper aims at improving our understanding of the price effects trade policies following two perspectives. First, we wish to study how role intermediaries in international affects transmission tariff changes domestic prices. Second, explore results are influenced by degree competition distribution-service market. In a Cournot oligopoly-oligopsony model, show pass-through cuts prices is limited market power producing distribution services. Our long-run equilibrium characterized larger number firms selling higher mark-up. Market access barriers services determine what extent transferred consumers and foreign producers, affecting size their welfare effects. The benefits liberalization can be better achieved if they complemented enhancing measures intermediation sector.