importance in trade talks, because of the large number of countries involved, the wider dispersion in initial tariffs (e … with heterogeneous firms subject to high and low tariffs. We examine the welfare effects of applying three different tariff …

Although the GATT prohibits discriminatory import tariffs, it includes means for circumventing this prohibition. The … previous literature uses static models and discriminatory tariffs increase welfare. In a dynamic model, if governments lack the … ability to precommit, this is not necessarily true. For example, with consumer switching costs, tariffs are higher for firms …

.S. tariffs on the Democratic vote share. The effects are estimated with fixed effects and Two-Stage Least Squares based on data … are constructed and shown to be significant. Overall, a 10% decrease of weighted tariffs leads to a 12% decrease in the …

through administrative procedures such as antidumping enforcement will increase as more traditional forms such as tariffs and …