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The Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM) and tariffs : price behaviour with imperfectly competitive market intermediaries
MacLaren, Donald - 2014
to use contingent tariffs to control import surges of food commodities and/or downward spikes in their border prices. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231627
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Coordinated tax-tariff reforms, informality, and welfare distribution
Ligthart, Jenny E.; Meijden, Gerard C. van der - 2010
and tariffs on factor markets, we find an efficiency gain, which is unevenly distributed. Existing generations benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003981994
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Market structure, trade liberalization and the GATS
Francois, Joseph F.; Wooton, Ian - 2000
In this paper we examine the interaction between the different modesof market access commitments inservices (cross-border and establishment) market structure, andregulation. In this context, we focus on theimpact of improved domestic market access for a foreign serviceprovider on a domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303873
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Trade in international transport services : the role of competition
Francois, Joseph F.; Wooton, Ian - 2000 - Rev., June 2000
We are concerned with trade in transport services (not cabotage butrather international shipping, transport,and related logistical services) and the importance of competitionand market structure in the sector. Weexamine implications of liberalization for profits, trade, andnational gains from...
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Market structure in services and market access in goods
Francois, Joseph F.; Wooton, Ian - 2004
direct impact of tariffs on trade flows. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335218
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Ben Bernanke in Doha : the effect of monetary policy on optimal tariffs
Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2016
infinite future. In this paper I analyze the setting of tariffs in a two-country model taking account of adjustment processes … induces policy makers with a short planning horizon to set lower tariffs because it enhances the short run boom following a … cut in tariffs. Monetary policy that aggressively fights deviations from its inflation target leads to even lower tariffs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555189
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Can taxing foreign competition harm the domestic industry?
Lutz, Stefan H. - 1998
The answer to the question in the title is yes for the case of ad-valorem taxes, a foreign industry that produces a vertically differentiated good of higher quality, and costs that take the form of qualitydependent fixed costs for both the foreign and domestic firm. The domestic industry loses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518148
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Tariffs passing through retailers : do tariffs actually protect domestic manufacturers?
Cole, Matthew T.; Eckel, Carsten - 2014
Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338661
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Can multinationals withstand growing trade barriers?
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Vujanović, Nina; Landesmann, Michael - 2024
environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … challenge to MNEs' subsidiaries' activity and performance than tariffs do. High-tech manufacturing subsidiaries of foreign MNEs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450560
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Commodity taxation and international trade in imperfect markets
Haufler, Andreas; Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank - 2000
This paper studies non-cooperative commodity taxation in a trade model with im-perfect competition and trade costs. Nationally optimal tax policy simultaneously tries to correct the domestic distortion from imperfect competition and to shift rents to the home country. Importantly, this trade-off...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543409