. Accordingly, it provides a convenient benchmark for the evaluation of the welfare effectiveness of other well known tariff reform … sources of the potential welfare gains from tariff reform, use it to establish conditions under which some existing reforms … are locally optimal, provide geometric illustrations and compare welfare effectiveness of reforms using numerical examples …

According to the literature, well known tariff reform rules that are guaranteed to increase welfare will not … welfare. Such conflict between welfare and market access objectives of trade policy is problematic and calls for finding … consumer welfare will always be weakly compatible, in the sense that reforms based on each objective have the same signed …

According to the literature, well known tariff reform rules that are guaranteed to increase welfare will not … welfare. Such conflict between welfare and market access objectives of trade policy is problematic and calls for finding … consumer welfare will always be weakly compatible, in the sense that reforms based on each objective have the same signed …

We show that the standard concertina result for tariff reforms – i.e. lowering the highest tariff increases welfare … tariff is lowered is not capital intensive. If the concertina reform lowers welfare it lowers market access as well, thereby …

increase in welfare and government revenues. The present paper examines whether the country that implements such a reform ends … follow both as far as it concerns market access and welfare. …

. Accordingly, it provides a convenient benchmark for the evaluation of the welfare effectiveness of other well known tariff reform … sources of the potential welfare gains from tariff reform, use it to establish conditions under which some existing reforms … are locally optimal, provide geometric illustrations and compare welfare effectiveness of reforms using numerical examples …

We show that the effects of tariff changes on welfare and import volume can be fully characterised by their effects on … the generalised mean and variance of the tariff distribution. Using these tools, we derive new results for welfare- and … market-access-improving tariff changes, which imply two cones of liberalisation in price space. Because welfare is negatively …