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Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …
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delayed pass-through of tariffs into import prices could cause such prolonged differential import growth. We examine how …
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We study, theoretically and empirically, how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins when they … to a customs union (where members coordinate external tariffs). Moreover, in customs unions (but not necessarily in free …
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climate policy community. Key remaining parties to the Agreement such as Europe and China might call for carbon tariffs on US … advocates of carbon tariffs: Given the possibility of retaliatory tariffs across all imported goods, carbon tariffs do not …
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card platforms, adopt multi-part tariffs. We show that ad valorem taxes can correct underprovision and hence increase … result in different settings, including vertically interlinked markets, markets where firms adopt menus of tariffs to screen … consumers and where they compete with multi-part tariffs. Our results suggest that exempting these markets from taxation may be …
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This paper shows that governments have no incentive to introduce non-tariff barriers when they are free to set tariffs … but they do when tariffs are determined cooperatively. We then show three results. First, with trade liberalization, there … is a progression from u sing tariffs only to quotas, and to antidumping constraints (when quotas are jointly eliminated …
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We study optimal climate policy for a "policy bloc" of countries facing a market where emissions offsets can be purchased from a non-policy "fringe" of countries (such as for the CDM). Policy-bloc firms benefit from free quota allocations whose quantity is updated according to firms' past...
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This paper develops an efficiency theory of contingent trade policies. We model the competition for a domestic market between one domestic and one foreign firm as a pricing game under incomplete information about production costs. The cost distributions are asymmetric because the foreign firm...
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We evaluate equity-efficiency trade-offs from admissions quotas by examining effects on output once beneficiaries start producing in the relevant industry. In particular, we document the impact of abolishing a 40% quota for male primary school teachers in Finland on their pupils' long-run...
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