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database, the Household Impacts of Tariffs data set, which contains harmonized household survey and tariff data for 54 low- and …. Using a stylized model of the first-order impacts of import tariffs on household real income, this paper quantifies the … welfare implications of agricultural trade protection. On average, unilateral elimination of agricultural tariffs would …
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unique data set compiled from unpublished customs records of imports, tariffs and all other taxes levied at the border. It …
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Some governments are considering taxes on imports based on carbon content from countries that have not introduced climate change policies. Such carbon border taxes appeal to domestic industries facing higher charges for their own carbon emissions. This research demonstrates that there are...
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Tariff exemptions for exporters are widely used by many countries as an instrument for providing export incentives … independently of its export performance, the tariff exemptions lose their potential as an export promotion instrument. The case of … revenues; 2) the more widespread the exemption, the less effective they become as an instrument for export promotion; 3 …
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neighboring countries, Vietnam and Thailand. Lao PDR has extensive export controls on rice, generating a sizable difference … that export their staple food …
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The paper provides the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007-08 using an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this subjective indicator of food security remained the same or...
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This paper revisits the ubiquitous bi-proportional gravity model and investigates the reasons why different theoretical frameworks may lead to the same empirical formula. The generic gravity equation possesses scale invariance symmetries that constrain possible theoretical explanations based on...
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World Trade Organization that permits member countries to impose retaliatory tariffs in response to trade violations … committed by other members. They show that monetary fines are more efficient than tariffs in terms of granting compensation to … paid by the violating country. If fines must ultimately be supported by the threat of retaliatory tariffs, they fail to …
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structure of the domestic service sector becomes increasingly important as tariffs are reduced. Empirically, lack of service …
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