We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …

WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs … from the real options literature; doing so we highlight the important role of bound tariffs at the extensive margin of … trade. We find that bound tariffs are more effective with higher risk destination markets, that a large binding overhang may …

Recent quantitative trade models treat import tariffs as pure cost shifters so that their effects are similar to … iceberg trade costs. We introduce revenue-generating import tariffs, which act as demand shifters, into the framework of … quantification based on countries' observed degrees of openness, tariff revenues, and on the gravity elasticities of tariffs and …

political debate about unilateral climate policies. Tariffs on the carbon embodied in imported goods from countries without … introduction of carbon tariffs can do more harm than good to domestic EITE industries. Two determinants drive the sign and … imported in intermediate inputs, industries might suffer from carbon tariffs. Secondly, the share of domestic output that is …

When Vietnam entered WTO in 2007 it was granted an accession period up to 2014. During this period tariffs would have …

-unconstrained tariffs to enhance the size and performance of self-enforcing IEAs. We show that the size of stable IEAs shrinks when climate … coalitions are Stackelberg leaders and set tariffs in addition to their cap-and-trade schemes. Surprisingly, these smaller IEAs … reduce total emissions more effectively than the larger stable IEAs without tariffs. In the model with tariffs the signatory …

Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …

. Therefore, the current trend of reduction in tariffs on agricultural exports not only generates a positive welfare effect in the …