This paper documents a new fact, then analyzes its causes and consequences: in most countries, import tariffs and non …, substantially accounts for this pattern. The downstream pattern can be explained by theories where industries lobby for low tariffs …

available and an efficiency ranking is feasible: tariffs vs. non-tariff barriers (NTBs). In our policy choice model a government … bargaining with domestic SIGs can gain by constraining tariffs through international agreements even if this leads to the use of … indicates NTBs are less efficient than the tariffs they imperfectly replace. Moreover, we find parametric and non …

residential electricity market, we document evidence of consumer inertia. We estimate an econometric model of retail choice to …

In a standard multi-sector, heterogeneous-firm trade model the effect of tariffs on entry, especially in the presence … are a consequence of the reductions in MFN tariffs (the Uruguay Round); and that for some countries, particularly some … would gain from the elimination of tariffs have a strong rank correlation with those that gain from a negative optimal …

In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within … their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market … advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and taste heterogeneity all matter for market outcomes, we find that a …

This paper studies how differences in labor market regulations shape countries' comparative advantage in the cross …