The authors consider an infinite-horizon setting in which domestic and foreign firms achieve collusive outcomes by threatening to punish deviators. They show that, in this setting, the standard results of Jagdish Bhagwhati (1965) can be reversed in that quotas promote competition while tariffs do not.
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Rotemberg et al. (1989) studied this question.
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