This paper shows that tariffs and production subsidies can Pareto-improve welfare in a small open economy when a … goverment use Pareto-optimal progressive income tax system used free trade, tariffs can Pareto-improve welfare. …

We estimate the reaction of French firms to the drop in tariffs that has occurred in the late 1990s, mainly as a … provided by the TRAINS data base. Like in Buono and Lalanne (2009), we take advantage of the variations in tariffs over time …. It allows us to exploit the panel structure of the data, which is not possible when using distance instead of tariffs …

distinguish between productivity gains arising from lower tariffs on final goods relative to those on intermediate inputs. Lower … output tariffs can produce productivity gains by inducing tougher import competition whereas cheaper imported inputs can … tariffs. A 10 percentage point fall in output tariffs increases productivity by about 1%, whereas an equivalent fall in input …

Do tariffs inhibit trade flows by limiting the entry of exporting firms (extensive margin') or by restricting the … tariffs promoted during the 1990s by the Uruguay Round multilateral trade agreement affected the trade margins of French firms …-varying tariffs as a measure of variable trade costs. Our results show that the number of firms exporting in a given sector to a given …

results suggest that for a 10 percentage point decline in input tariffs, firms in the state at the 75th percentile of judicial …-selection of firms into states with high judicial efficiency and an IV approach to instrument input tariffs. In addition, the …

Do tariffs inhibit trade flows by limiting the entry of exporting firms (`extensive margin') or by restricting the … tariffs promoted during the 1990s by the Uruguay Round multilateral trade agreement affected the trade margins of French firms …-varying tariffs as a measure of variable trade costs. Our results show that the number of firms exporting in a given sector to a given …

Do tariffs inhibit trade flows by limiting the entry of exporters (‘firm extensive margin’) or by restricting the … in tariffs promoted during the 90s by the Uruguay Round multilateral trade agreement affected the trade margins of French …-varying tariffs as a measure of variable trade costs. Our results show that the number of firms exporting in a given sector to a given …

bias or border effect rather than by using other indicators such as the openness rate or the existence of tariffs and non …