Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the …

structural model of endogenous tariff evasion, one which then highlights the importance of both tariffs and border enforcement …

structural model of endogenous tariff evasion, one which then highlights the importance of both tariffs and border enforcement …

We carry out an indirect inference test of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of world trade …. One of these, the ‘classical’ model,is well-known as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of world trade, in which … countries trade homogeneous products in world markets and produce according to their comparative advantage as determined by …

-supply elasticity and of the import-demand elasticity. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques in the case of MFN tariffs and ….g. most favored nation tariffs) and on the exporter side (e.g. export subsidies), even in the presence of exporter and …

model that incorporates bilateral tariffs and a number of indicators for the quality of infrastructure. The paper looks at … estimators, multilateral resistances for tariffs and remoteness are introduced in the gravity equation. Moreover, the robustness … included. The results can be summarised in four main findings: (i) bilateral tariffs, generally neglected in gravity regression …

The WTO's plurilateral Information Technology Agreement (ITA) reduced tariffs to zero on many IT products. This paper … time in trade literatures. Inserting tariffs directly into the gravity equation breaks the ITAs impact down into four … layers. Import demand elasticities are found to be non-linear: Tariff reduction (layer 1) has relatively small impacts, while …