In this paper we demonstrate the importance of distinguishing capital goods tariffs from other tariffs. Using exposure … reduction in intermediate and consumption input or output tariffs do not significantly increase their investment rates. However …, firms' investment rate increase strongly in response to a reduction in capital goods input tariffs. Firms do not substitute …

plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more … plants are forced from the market, which truncates the lower end of the productivity distribution. For surviving plants …, appreciations can lead to a reduction in plant size, which, in the presence of scale economies, can lower productivity. We examine …

changes in tariffs and real exchange rates, whether differences in their efficiency levels are controlled or not …

In this paper, we explore the linkages between export-market participation and productivity performance in Canadian … manufacturing plants. We also examine differences in the effect of exporting on productivity between foreign-controlled and domestic …-controlled plants, and between young and older plants. We find that export participation improves productivity. The effect is much …

-generating tariffs to study the aggregate and distributional consequences of tariff wars in a unified framework. Motivated by the 2018 …-equilibrium tariff are about 16 percent. Multilateral trade negotiations lead to zero cooperative tariffs and free trade. No country can … worker interests with weights incorporating factual "autonomous rate" tariffs, then trade talks lead to positive cooperative …

in which traders operate.Binding tariffs at the WTO reduces the scope for their discretionary use. But, countries have … bound tariffs at ceiling levels often substantially above the level of applied tariffs. Therefore, whether the ceiling rate …. Using a recently built database on applied tariffs covering over 100 countries for the period 1996 to 2009, we find evidence …

they willmove towards free trade, while providing some flexibility for trading offreductions in peak tariffs against …