This paper deals with the EU’s trade policy with two objectives: on the one hand, we study the performance of EU's preferential agreements in granting their partners improved market access; on the other hand, we assess the extent to which domestic sectors are effectively protected. As far as...

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.

This paper seeks to determine whether it is sufficient to revise administered trade procedures to reduce endogenous protectionist tendencies of the trade policy mechanism.

The effects of tariff wars on welfare are analysed for the case of trade between two countries with outputs of the traded good given exogenously. Assuming mild conditions, it is shown that if there are non-zero tariffs for which welfare-maximizing equilibrium holds, then free trade is not...

We Review Major Features of the History of Canada's Trade and Investment Relations Particularly with the E.E.C. and the U.S., Regional Development Pattern in the U.S.A. and Canada, and Some Theory and Estimates of the Sectoral and Regional Impacts of Bilateral Trade Liberalization.

In this experiment, we analyze the model of strategic trade policy proposed by Brander and Spencer (1985). Governments can choose whether or not to subsidize domestic firms. Firms compete in a Cournot duopoly, and they know the subsidy decisions when choosing output. Although the theoretical...

The article brings some empirical conclusions regarding the possible consequences of implementing of the common commercial policy of the European Community (EC) for the Czech foreign trade and the whole economy after the CR's EU accession. The analysis comes to conclusion that the impacts will...

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an industry-level dataset for the United States, by combining information on the number of temporary work...