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In models of monopolistic competition with a single factor of production, imposition of tariff can lead (paradoxically) to a drop in the aggregate price index of the import competing sector. The present model first introduces an internationally mobile capital in such a set up. It is found that...
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, tariffs may fail to protect, leading to a Metzler Paradox like situation. This is because the income effect generated due to …
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is twenty three times easier to enter those markets for a Southern country exporter in 2006 than in 1980. While tariffs …
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international trade. By imposing tariffs and quotas and altering the structure of the home market from one of perfect competition to … efficiency effects of import tariffs and quotas. …
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Since the 1987 Single European Act, the European Union has deepened its integration process. In the case of the determination of the common external tariff, deeper integration implies that the tariff reflected union-wide preferences. If integration is still shallow, though, the observed tariff...
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impeding exports, including transport, tariffs, technical barriers and sanitary and phytosanitarystandards. A gravity model is …. A decreasing trend for tariffs has largely been compensated by more stringent technical barriers. The overall result is …
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the short-run effect of the tariffs on Chinese tires imposed by the US in … September 2009. First, we investigated whether the tariffs were beneficial to the US domestic tire industry in terms of … result led us to the next question: Who benefited from the tariffs? We found that the tire imports to the US were …
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The impact of trade liberalization on productivity and economic growth has received considerable attention in recent policy debate. Besides the theory, there is also a large body of empirical literature on the impact of trade policy reforms on productivity growth. We contribute to this...
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The study is organized as follows: Chapter 1 reviews the recent performance of the Honduran economy and the objective and coverage of the study. Chapter 2 provides a detailed examination of policies guiding trade and key institutions controlling trade practices. Chapter 3 describes trade control...
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of countries' endowments. Secondly, I consider the theory of optimal tariffs and foreign aid. To encourage the South to …
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