In this paper we demonstrate the importance of distinguishing capital goods tariffs from other tariffs. Using exposure … reduction in intermediate and consumption input or output tariffs do not significantly increase their investment rates. However …, firms' investment rate increase strongly in response to a reduction in capital goods input tariffs. Firms do not substitute …

This paper explores how reductions in tariffs on imported inputs and final goods affect firm productivity by exploiting … importantly, unlike previous findings, reductions in output tariffs have a greater effect on productivity improvement compared … construct firm-level input and output tariffs. Careful examination of the extent of firm engagement in processing trade and in …

-generating tariffs to study the aggregate and distributional consequences of tariff wars in a unified framework. Motivated by the 2018 …-equilibrium tariff are about 16 percent. Multilateral trade negotiations lead to zero cooperative tariffs and free trade. No country can … worker interests with weights incorporating factual "autonomous rate" tariffs, then trade talks lead to positive cooperative …

in which traders operate.Binding tariffs at the WTO reduces the scope for their discretionary use. But, countries have … bound tariffs at ceiling levels often substantially above the level of applied tariffs. Therefore, whether the ceiling rate …. Using a recently built database on applied tariffs covering over 100 countries for the period 1996 to 2009, we find evidence …

they willmove towards free trade, while providing some flexibility for trading offreductions in peak tariffs against …

model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a … WTO bound tariffs that we built for all WTO Members from 1996 to 2011 at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation. Our …