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In this paper we discuss the incentives of a welfare maximizing government to implement strategic trade policy when, on the one hand, there is uncertainty about the relevant market information (like the type of competition, demand function, cost function, etc.), but, on the other hand, the...
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Can a country gain international competitiveness by the design of optimal monetary stabilization rules? This paper reconsiders this question by specifying an open-economy monetary model encompassing a ‘production relocation externality,’ developed in trade theory to analyze the benefits from...
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the form of tariffs can lead to ‘quality reversal’, when the initially low-quality domestic firm jumps up the quality …
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pecuniary benefits: higher prices lead to more integration. Because tariffs increase domestic product prices, this effect … the predictions of our model, we obtain three main results. First, higher tariffs lead to higher levels of vertical …
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The Byrd amendment to US anti-dumping law distributes the revenue from anti-dumping duties imposed on foreign firms to the domestic firms that lodged the complaint of dumping. This Paper shows that the presence of the Byrd Amendment can yield lower duties and greater welfare than in its absence....
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protectionist policies in countries where workers will benefit from the imposition of tariffs and quotas. We test and confirm these …
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. The effects of differences in technology and endowments on the pattern of trade and welfare are examined. Import tariffs …
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.The paper shows that a carbon tax should not be differentiated across sectors in the economy, provided import and export tariffs … cooperating countries if they are prevented from using tariffs on the traded goods. Informational or political factors … constraining the use of tariffs are also likely to constrain the possibility of differentiating carbon taxes between sectors …
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Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm …
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the nature of the oligopolistic equilibrium, tariffs may or may not induce foreign direct investment, they may or may not …
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