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Governments in more developed economies partially compensate import-competing industries when world prices fall, i.e. they lean against the wind. In less developed economies we often observe liberalization in response to the same shock. We use a political-support maximization model with revenue...

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The balance of concessions in trade agreements

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Energy tariffs and the poor

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Tariff overhang and aid : theory and empirics

Lorz, Oliver; Thede, Susanna - 2018 - This Version: January 15, 2018

In this paper, we consider aid payments as a possible explanation for tariff overhangs. According to our hypothesis, rich countries may use development aid to pay for tariff concessions. Developing countries, in turn, may anticipate such a policy in the negotiations for tariff bindings. Setting...

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Tariff overhang and aid : theory and empirics

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What's left for the WTO?

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

currently applied tariffs are "too high," the implication being that there are still tariff reductions out there for an … agreement like the WTO to facilitate. These three areas include applied tariffs for countries that are not members of the WTO …, applied tariffs for WTO members that are unbound, and applied tariffs for WTO members set in the presence of large amounts of …

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