‐regional cooperation comprising the four contiguous countries of Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar (BCIM). Design …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to survey the growth of solar energy worldwide, analyze US-China trade dispute … in the solar industry, and evaluate the merits of US trade tariffs. Design/methodology/approach – The study surveyed … US Government provides generous support programs and subsidies to US solar industry. Accordingly, US punitive tariffs …

of cotton into China. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reviews first the possible arguments for raising the tariff …, and particularly the possibility that such an increase in tariffs would have a favorable distributional effect by … rules. The paper then examines other constraints on the effective use of such higher tariffs on cotton. Policies that are …

Abstract This paper presents a two-country intra-industry trade model with bilateral ad valorem tariffs and fixed …. However, the sum of available home and foreign varieties increases for small tariffs. Firm profits are falling in both tariff … effect for the tariff. Welfare falls when fixed export costs increase and increases for small tariffs and falls for large …

introduce their new product into a market. The home government may apply an import tariff, an administrative delay, or both to … tariffs. With a tariff, the home government can affect the timing of entry to ensure that the domestic firm moves first at the … manner. If trade liberalization constrains the import tariff to be below its domestically optimal level, discriminatory …

with a reliance on tariffs over subsidies. We find that the existing theoretical literature is consistent with the cross …

practices free trade, low home tariffs yield international mergers irrespective of the substitutability levels. By contrast …, when foreign tariffs are sufficiently high and products are close substitutes, national mergers obtain in the equilibrium …. Unlike this asymmetric result of unilateral trade liberalization, we find that when bilateral tariffs are sufficiently low …

This paper presents a two-country intra-industry trade model with bilateral ad valorem tariffs and fixed export costs …, the sum of available home and foreign varieties increases for small tariffs. Firm profits are falling in both tariff and … the tariff. Welfare falls when fixed export costs increase and increases for small tariffs and falls for large tariffs, i …

new product into a market. The home government may apply an import tariff, an administrative delay, or both to the product … world welfare. We show that administrative delays are less efficient instruments for maximizing home welfare than tariffs … manner. If trade liberalization constrains the import tariff to be below its domestically optimal level, discriminatory …

tariffs over subsidies. We find that the existing theoretical literature is consistent with the cross-country evidence.  …