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Developing Country Borrowing from a Monopolistic Lender: Strategic Interaction and Endogenous Leadership

Jafarey, S. & Lahiri, S. (2005). Developing Country Borrowing from a Monopolistic Lender: Strategic Interaction and Endogenous Leadership (05/06). London, UK: Department of Economics, City University London.

Abstract

We develop a two-period model with endogenous investment and credit flows. Credit is subject to quantitative restrictions. With an exogenous restriction, we analyze the welfare effects of temporary tariffs. We then consider three scenarios under which a monopoly lender optimally decides the level of credit and a borrower country chooses an import tariff: one inwhich the two parties act simultaneously and two scenarios where one of them has a first-mover advantage. The equilibrium under the leadership of the borrower country is Pareto superior to the Nash equilibrium but may or may not be to that under the leadership of the lender. If the sequence of moves is itself chosen strategically, leadership by the borrower emerges as the unique equilibrium.

Publication Type: Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Additional Information: © 2005 the authors
Publisher Keywords: Trade intervention, investment credit, credit constraints, credit control, leader-follower
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Departments: School of Policy & Global Affairs > Economics > Discussion Paper Series
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