-country symmetric reciprocal dumping model of intra-industry trade with free entry and trade costs. We show that the consumption base … (destination principle) dominates the production base (origin principle) when trade costs are high or demand is linear. For lower … levels of trade costs and nonlinear demand, the welfare ranking of the two tax bases is ambiguous. Hence, there is no clear …

This paper examines the effects of trade costs on macroeconomic volatility. We first construct a dynamic, two …-country general equilibrium model, where the degree of market integration depends directly on trade costs (transport costs, tariffs …, etc.). The model is a extension of Obstfeld and Rogoff (1995). Naturally, a reduction in trade costs leads to more market …

This paper analyzes developments in the structure of trade in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) during the … transition decade, and finds that it changed less than in other transition economies. Trade openness of the CIS increased between … include slower progress in transition, geographic aspects, restrictions on trade, governance and corruption problems, weak …

This paper studies non-cooperative commodity taxation in a trade model with imperfect competition and trade costs … rents to the home country. Importantly, this trade-off depends qualitatively on the international commodity tax regime in … operation. For low levels of trade costs, we show that production-based commodity taxes dominate from a global welfare …

This paper studies non-cooperative commodity taxation in a trade model with imperfect competition and trade costs … rents to the home country. Importantly, this trade-off depends qualitatively on the international commodity tax regime in … operation. For low levels of trade costs, we show that production-based commodity taxes dominate from a global welfare …