Why would the US threaten punitive tariffs on luxury autos to implement a market share target in auto parts? We show …

tariffs. Since the eruption of the debt crisis, many proposals for structural reforms in the developing countries have …

preference by economists for factor or product taxes and subsidies over tariffs and export subsidies may not be justified in this …

We investigate the effects of higher tariffs on the current account.Tariffs may increase or decrease investment … depending on the capital intensity of the sector protected. We find that ther esponse of saving to tariffs issensitive to the …), saving fallswith higher tariffs. This result may, however, be reversed in the Blanchard-Yaarj type model in which consumers …

uncertain future increases in tariffs. Second, even though the trade response can be quite large, the probability of a tariff …

find that in response to the 2018 tariffs on nearly all source countries, the price of washers rose by nearly 12 percent …; the price of dryers—a complementary good not subject to tariffs—increased by an equivalent amount. Factoring in the effect … of dryers and price increases by domestic brands, our estimates for the 2018 tariffs on washers imply a tariff elasticity …

negotiations over tariffs. Using 1990 trade flows and tariff outcomes from the Uruguay Round of GATT/WTO negotiations, we estimate … would result in inefficient over-liberalization of tariffs and a deterioration in world-wide welfare relative to the …