protectionist policies in countries where workers will benefit from the imposition of tariffs and quotas. We test and confirm these …

%) was absorbed by RoO-related administrative costs with non-administrative costs for Mexican firms of about 3% US of import …

implications for how nations should conduct their trade policy. For example, should import sectors with weaker comparative … paper we explore these issues in the context of a canonical Ricardian model. Our main results imply that optimal import … tariffs should be uniform, whereas optimal export subsidies should be weakly decreasing with respect to comparative advantage …

elected to determine the tariffs to be applied on imported goods. Under a customs union, the necessity to coordinate tariffs …

Anderson and Neary (1992, 1994 and 1996). The second index captures the impact of trade distortions on each country’s import … distortions imposed by the rest of the world on each country’s export bundle. All indices are estimated for the broad aggregates … 70 percent on average to world protection, underlying their importance for any study on trade protection. …

According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from a reduction in tariffs and other … these concerns - by using a model-based analysis which highlights tariffs on capital and intermediate goods; by compiling … treatment, liberalizing tariffs on imported capital and intermediate goods, did lead to faster GDP growth, and by a margin …

output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs can … distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to those on intermediate inputs. Lower … tariffs. A 10 percentage point fall in output tariffs increases productivity by about 1%, whereas an equivalent fall in input …