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Can taxing foreign competition harm the domestic industry?
Lutz, Stefan - 1998
The answer to the question in the title is yes for the case of ad-valorem taxes, a foreign industry that produces a vertically differentiated good of higher quality, and costs that take the form of qualitydependent fixed costs for both the foreign and domestic firm. The domestic industry loses...
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On Capturing Oil Rents with a National Excise Tax Revisited
Rubio, Santiago J. - 2004
In this paper the scope of Bergstrom's (1982) results is studied. Moreover, his analysis is extended assuming that extraction cost is directly related to accumulated extractions. For the case of a competitive market it is found that the optimal policy is a constant tariff if extraction is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325008
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Dumping in a Global World
Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004
Anti-dumping actions are now the trade policy of choice of developing and transition economies. To understand why these economies have increasingly applied anti-dumping laws, we build a simple theoretical model of vertical intra-industry trade and investigate the strategic incentives of...
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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income
Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325564
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More trade for better health? International trade and tariffs on health products
Helble, Matthias - 2012
further indicate that the market of health products is dominated by a small number of developed countries. Looking at tariffs … overall level of tariffs is low, but far from being zero, especially in the last three country groups. Finally, studying the … tariffs on health products in preferential trade agreements between developing countries, the results show that the tariff …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326805
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Importzoll, Beschäftigung und Leistungsbilanz: ein mikrofundierter Ansatz
Bleich, Torsten - 2004
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Wirkungen eines Importzolls auf die Beschäftigung und die Leistungsbilanz der kleinen offenen Wirtschaft. Ne- ben der makroökonomischen Totalanalyse von Zollwirkungen steht die mi- kroökonomische Fundierung des verwendeten Modells im Mittelpunkt. Die...
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Customs union and Kazakhstan's imports
Isakova, Asel; Plekhanov, Alexander - 2012
appear to have been insignificant. At the same time the change in tariffs appears to have created some trade diversion, with …
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Who gains from trade protection in Ghana: A household-level analysis?
Ackah, Charles; Morrissey, Oliver; Appleton, Simon - 2007
-section data. This method has rarely been used in poverty analysis. The results suggest that higher tariffs are associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319078
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Climate Policy and the Problem of Competitiveness: Border Tax Adjustments or Integrated Emission Trading?
Löschel, Andreas; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; Mennel, Tim - 2008
In the absence of an international agreement on climate policy, unilateral carbon abatement creates two problems: It tends to have a detrimental effect on domestic competitiveness, and it leads to an increase in carbon emissions abroad (leakage). This paper analyses two policies that have...
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Shallow versus deep integration between mediterranean countries and the EU and within the mediterranean region
Ghoneim, Ahmed Farouk; Lopez Gonzalez, Javier; Mendez … - 2011
developed for this project concerning tariffs (as a proxy for shallow integration) and Non Tariff Measures (NTMs)2 (as a proxy … model is estimated for only one year (2001), and for each MED country. Trade costs are represented by tariffs, AVEs of NTMs … bilateral trade between MED countries and EU countries as well as amongst MED countries. The model shows that tariffs, NTMs, and …
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