Trade economists traditionally study the effect of lower variable trade costs. While increasingly important politically, technical barriers to trade (TBTs) have received less attention. Viewing TBTs as fixed regulatory costs related to the entry into export markets, we use a model with...

Der vorliegende Beitrag unterzieht den ETA einer kritischen Analyse hinsichtlich seiner Annahmen und Eigenschaften, der technischen Realisation und der Entscheidungsrelevanz für eventuelle Adressaten. Abschnitt 2 dient zunächst der Abgrenzung unterschiedlicher Effektivsteuerkonzeptionen und...

This paper has provided an introduction to a multi-country model applied to the European Union which can be used to tackle fiscal policies questions in a static framework. We provide in addition a code written in GAMS, which accomodates the model specification in a concise and transparent...