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Revenue Neutral Trade Reform With Many Households, Quotas and Tariffs.
Anderson, J-E - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 1997
Government budget balance forces the endogenous use of distortionary tax instruments when an exogenous reform is implemented. The aggregate efficiency of such reforms is based on comparisons of simple summary measures of the Marginal Cost of Funds of the various tariff or quota changes with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779975
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Does Free Trade Really Reduce Growth? Further Testing Using the Economic Freedom Index
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik - 2007
trade with foreigners is detrimental for growth. We find that Taxes on international trade seems to drive this result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055545
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The Polish Alternative. Old Myths, Hard Facts and New Strategies in the Successful Transformation of the Polish Economy.
Kolodko, G-W; Nuti, D-M - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 1997
trade regime, exchange rate, credit and interest rate policies - were largely unnecessary or excessive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005475020
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Revisiting Linkages between Openness, Education and Economic Growth: System GMM Approach
Fukase, Emiko - In: Journal of Economic Integration 25 (2010), pp. 193-222
using the System Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) approach. Trade and growth are usually positively correlated and capital … formation appears to be an important channel through which trade brings growth. There generally exists a positive relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421196
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The sources of protectionist drift in representative democracies
Laussel, Didier; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2001
We analyze a two country-two good model of international trade in which citizens in each country differ by their … specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398023
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Long Run Trends in New Zealand Industry Assistance
Lattimore, Ralph - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2003
New Zealand has had a complex process of adjusting commercial policy since the economic reforms began in 1984. This paper reports on the results of a research project to estimate the trends in industry assistance over this period and the variance of assistance within 2-digit industry groupings.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005384978
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Dynamic Gains and Losses from Trade Reform : An Intertemporal Geneeral Equilibrium Model of the United States and MERCOSUR.
Diao, X; Somwaru, A - 1996
adjustments in both regions' commodity and capital markets after trade liberalization. Simulation results show that tariff … reductions initiated by MERCOSUR have small positive effects on the US production, trade, consumption and investment, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639455
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Industry Structure and Optimal Discriminatory Commercial Policies
Van Long, N.; Soubeyran, A. - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 1996
be optimal to tax the less efficient domestic firms. Then it considers the optimal discriminatory tariffs on homogeneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634419
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LONGRUN TRENDS IN NEW ZEALAND INDUSTRY ASSISTANCE
Lattimore, Ralph - EconWPA - 2004
New Zealand has had a complex process of adjusting commercial policy since the economic reforms began in 1984. This paper reports on the results of a research project to estimate the trends in industry assistance over this period and the variance of assistance within 2- digit industry groupings.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119303
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Does Free Trade Really Reduce Growth? Further Testing Using the Economic Freedom Index
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik - 2003
trade with foreigners" is detrimental for growth. We find that "Taxes on international trade" seems to drive this result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321548