Albeit nominal tariffs have been decreasing in the past decades, the rise of global manufacturing along global value … Protection Rates provide important insights on the impact of tariffs on the international competitiveness of national industries … impact of tariffs on the production cost of services. A final chapter explores the existence of underlying economic factors …

Are retaliatiory tariffs politically targeted and, if so, are they effective? Do countries designing a retaliation …

non-cooperative policies within a single framework. First, we compare the elasticity of trade flows to import tariffs and … in import tariffs by 1 percentage point reduces imports by around 1.4 percent. Hence the two instruments are not …, a country will more likely react to a trade "aggression" through monetary easing rather than through a tariff increase …

contributes at filling this gap. The effective protection on industries resulting from tariff duties is analysed from the …

In this paper, I discuss the effects of certain trade policy measures, mostly import tariffs, presently contemplated by … conventional theory, stating that, following changes in the tariff structure, resources will shift toward activities that enjoy the … hurting industries that use outsourcing extensively, has little chances to create incentives for labor shifts in the desired …

An often-neglected potential negative consequence of tariffs is the impact they may have on the misallocation of factor …-productivity firms to survive, thereby leading to a sub-optimal allocation of resources. This paper explores the impact of tariffs on the … allocation of capital using administrative data from South Africa. We find that tariffs are highly correlated with capital …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry …

Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy … in response to an increased tariff. Moreover, any production gains that occur are biased towards higher cost domestic …

tariff on the terms of trade, the trade pattern, real consumption and employment of labor. It is shown that with full … employment in both countries, a tariff by the home country improves its terms of trade and increases its national welfare at the … examine the asymmetric cases and calibrate our model to evaluate numerically the effect of large tariff changes. The main …