Optimal Production Tax and Privatization Policies under an Endogenous Market Structure

Cato, Susumu and Matsumura, Toshihiro (2017): Optimal Production Tax and Privatization Policies under an Endogenous Market Structure.

Abstract

We investigate the optimal tax and privatization policies in a mixed oligopoly in which a state-owned public firm competes against private firms in a free-entry market. First, we investigate the domestic private firm case. The optimal tax rate is strictly positive except for the full privatization and full nationalization cases, and the relationship between the optimal tax rate and degree of privatization is inverted U-shaped. Further, the optimal degree of privatization is decreasing in the tax rate. Next, we investigate the foreign private firm case and find that the two policies are mutually independent.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: industrial policy; privatization; free entry; unit tax-subsidy; foreign ownership
• Subjects: H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods; H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H44 - Publicly Provided Goods: Mixed Markets; L - Industrial Organization > L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance > L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets

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