. In the first quarter of 2002, President Bush imposed tariffs of up to 30 percent on foreign steel producers in many …

potential productivity benefits. The welfare benefits of final-good tariffs thus tend to be larger, with the optimal degree of …Import tariffs tend to be higher for final goods than for inputs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as tariff …-maximizing tariffs are uniform across sectors. We show that tariff escalation can be rationalized on efficiency grounds in the presence …

This paper analyses and compares ten institutions that have a mandate to promote productivity-enhancing reforms. The … well-designed pro-productivity institutions can generally improve the quality of the policy process and political debate … concentrating knowledge and research on productivity in one independent, highly skilled and reputed body can help create the …

with stores in the United States and Canada. They develop a model of pricing by location and employ a regression …