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Tariffs, Time Preference, and the Current Account under Weakly Nonseparable Preferences.
Ikeda; S. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 2000
Incorporating weakly nonseparable preferences into the familiar time-preference model, we emphasize a role of steady …-state welfare changes in determining the effect of permanent tariffs on the current account. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458111
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30 years of trade policy: Evidence from 5.7 billion tariffs
Teti, Feodora A. - 2020
This paper presents a new global tariff database covering tariffs at the six-digit product level for 197 importing … data and misreporting, almost doubling the number of available tariffs from 2.9 to 5.7 billion. The improvement in the data … tariffs around the world improving our understanding of how countries set tariffs substantially. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255076
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Missing Tariffs
Teti, Feodora - 2023
Many studies use tariffs to measure changes in trade policy. This paper shows that standard sources for tariffs suffer … from substantial measurement error due to misreporting and the resulting false imputation: Countries fail to report tariffs … every year and missing data are more prevalent for preferential than for most favored nation (MFN) tariffs. WITS, the main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467830
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30 years of trade policy : evidence from 5.7 billion tariffs
Teti, Feodora A. - 2020
This paper presents a new global tariff database covering tariffs at the six-digit product level for 197 importing … data and misreporting, almost doubling the number of available tariffs from 2.9 to 5.7 billion. The improvement in the data … tariffs around the world improving our understanding of how countries set tariffs substantially. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012254482
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Chapter 1. The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, C.P.; Crowley, M.A. - 2016
This chapter surveys empirically the broad features of trade policy in goods for 31 major economies that collectively represented 83% of the world's population and 91% of the world's GDP in 2013. We address five questions: Do some countries have more liberal trading regimes than others? Within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023444
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Missing tariffs
Teti, Feodora - 2023
Many studies use tariffs to measure changes in trade policy. This paper shows that standard sources for tariffs suffer … from substantial measurement error due to misreporting and the resulting false imputation: Countries fail to report tariffs … every year and missing data are more prevalent for preferential than for most favored nation (MFN) tariffs. WITS, the main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014492124
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Uganda’s Access to Global and Regional Markets
Walkenhorst, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
As a landlocked country in East Africa, Uganda faces two major disadvantages concerning access to foreign markets. It does not have an immediate gateway to low-cost ocean transport, but first has to pass its imports and exports through neighboring countries by road or rail. Nor does it share a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543041
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Trade, Diversification and Growth in Nigeria
Walkenhorst, Peter; Cattaneo, Olivier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
. Border tariffs are being reduced, trade regulations are under review, and ambitious modernization programs for customs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534241
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Global Overview of Trade Policies
Laborde, David - In: La Lettre du CEPII (2007) 267
, but also evaluating those encountered by their exports in external markets, including tariff preferences. The whole of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062900
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Habits, Costly Investment, and Current Account Dynamics
Ikeda, S.; Gombi, I. - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1995
Using a small country model with habit-forming consumers and costly investment, we analyze equilibrium dynamics of the economy and derive empirical and welfare implications. The model can mimic some stylized facts: (i) a temporary increase in fiscal spending always deteriorates the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602944