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Imperfect competition, state trading and Japan's imports of rice
MacLaren, Donald - 2011
the existing import regime for rice, which is a tariff quota. The conclusions are: first, that, compared with the …-firm Cournot oligopsony/oligopoly that acts as the counterfactual. Using Japanese market price and quantity data for rice, and … counterfactual, an importing state trading enterprise acts like a tariff by restricting imports; and second, the current import …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332287
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Imperfect Competition, State Trading and Japan's Imports of Rice
MacLaren, Donald - 2011
the existing import regime for rice, which is a tariff quota. The conclusions are: first, that, compared with the …-firm Cournot oligopsony/oligopoly that acts as the counterfactual. Using Japanese market price and quantity data for rice, and … counterfactual, an importing state trading enterprise acts like a tariff by restricting imports; and second, the current import …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127901
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Multilateral Agricultural Trade Liberalization : The Contrasting Fortunes of Developing Countries in the Doha Round
Bouët, Antoine; Bureau, Jean-Christophe; Decreux, Yvan; … - 2012
An applied general equilibrium model is used to assess the impact of multilateral trade liberalization in agriculture, with particular emphasis on developing countries. We use original data, and the model includes some specific features such as a dual labor market. Applied tariffs, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064371
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China - Tariff Rate Quotas for Certain Agricultural Products : Against the Grain: Can the WTO Open Chinese Markets? A Contaminated Experiment
Glauber, Joseph W.; Lester, Simon - 2020
The U.S. complaint about Chinese tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) on certain grain products helps illustrate several key issues in U.S. - China trade relations and the effectiveness of WTO disputes. First, do international obligations based on transparency and fairness work in relation to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090234
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The effects of quotas on vertical intra-industry trade
Lutz, Stefan Heinz Hermann - 2002
A quota on foreign competition will generally lead to quality-upgrading (downgrading) of the low-quality (high-quality) firm, an increase in average quality, a reduction of quality differentiation, and a reduction of domestic consumer surplus, irrespective of whether the foreign firm produces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519051
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The effects of quotas on vertical intra-industry trade
Lutz, Stefan H. - 2002
A quota on foreign competition will generally lead to quality-upgrading (downgrading) of the low-quality (high-quality) firm, an increase in average quality, a reduction of quality differentiation, and a reduction of domestic consumer surplus, irrespective of whether the foreign firm produces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447628
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Welfare Gains from Trade in Multi-Sector Models : The Role of Aggregation and Income Elasticities
Yilmazkuday, Hakan - 2019
Sectoral heterogeneity has been shown to affect country-level welfare gains from trade that can be calculated by sector-specific trade elasticities and home expenditure shares. However, empirical analyses of multi-sector models are restricted to a limited number of countries and sectors, mostly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900060
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Optimal tariffs, retaliation and the welfare loss from tariff wars in the Melitz model
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin; Larch, Mario - 2011
This paper characterizes analytically the optimal tariff of a large one-sector economy with monopolistic competition and firm heterogeneity in general equilibrium, thereby extending the small-country results of Demidova and Rodriguez-Clare (JIE, 2009) and the homogeneous firms framework of Gros...
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Rags in the high rent district : the evolution of quota rents in textiles and clothing
Francois, Joseph F.; Wörz, Julia - 2005
We develop a mixed complementarity programming (MCP) based estimating framework for non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to examine the evolution of market access conditions in the textile and clothing sectors, working with a panel of bilateral trade data on textile and clothing trade, underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348348
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Modelling Preferential Sugar Imports of the EU : A Spatial Price Equilibrium Analysis
Nolte, Stephan - 2010
A spatial price equilibrium model with a large coverage of countries, policies and regional trade arrangements is applied to simulate preferential sugar imports of the European Union (EU) in 2015/16 under different assumptions with respect to the expansion of the sugar sectors of various least...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142912