Pass-Through as an Economic Tool: Principles of Incidence under Imperfect Competition
将完全竞争下的五个税收归宿原理扩展到不完全竞争的一般模型,涵盖税收在消费者与生产者之间的分配、传导决定因素等,可用于简化市场采购和价格歧视等经济问题的分析。
We extend five principles of tax incidence under perfect competition to a general model of imperfect competition. The principles cover (1) the independence of physical and economic incidence, the (2) qualitative and (3) quantitative manner in which taxes are split between consumers and producers, (4) the determinants of tax pass-through, and (5) the integration of local incidence to determine the overall division of surplus. We show how these principles can be used to simplify and generalize the analysis of a range of economic questions such as the optimal procurement of new markets and the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination.