. Accordingly, it provides a convenient benchmark for the evaluation of the welfare effectiveness of other well known tariff reform … sources of the potential welfare gains from tariff reform, use it to establish conditions under which some existing reforms … are locally optimal, provide geometric illustrations and compare welfare effectiveness of reforms using numerical examples …

Well known tariff reform rules that are guaranteed to increase welfare will not necessarily increase market access …, while rules that are guaranteed to increase market access will not necessarily increase welfare. The present paper proposes …

According to the literature, well known tariff reform rules that are guaranteed to increase welfare will not … welfare. Such conflict between welfare and market access objectives of trade policy is problematic and calls for finding … consumer welfare will always be weakly compatible, in the sense that reforms based on each objective have the same signed …

We show that the standard concertina result for tariff reforms -- i.e. lowering the highest tariff increases welfare … tariff is lowered is not capital intensive. If the concertina reform lowers welfare it lowers market access as well, thereby …

increase in welfare and government revenues. The present paper examines whether the country that implements such a reform ends … follow both as far as it concerns market access and welfare. …

. Accordingly, it provides a convenient benchmark for the evaluation of the welfare effectiveness of other well known tariff reform … sources of the potential welfare gains from tariff reform, use it to establish conditions under which some existing reforms … are locally optimal, provide geometric illustrations and compare welfare effectiveness of reforms using numerical examples …