An often-neglected potential negative consequence of tariffs is the impact they may have on the misallocation of factor …-productivity firms to survive, thereby leading to a sub-optimal allocation of resources. This paper explores the impact of tariffs on the … allocation of capital using administrative data from South Africa. We find that tariffs are highly correlated with capital …

-generating tariffs. This approach allows us to take account of adjustment dynamics, distributional aspects and the time horizon of policy … makers and workers. In response to a unilateral increase in tariffs aggregate consumption increases only sluggishly so that … policy makers with a short time horizon tend to set lower tariffs. Workers' preferences for tariffs depend on the sector …

Many studies use tariffs to measure changes in trade policy. This paper shows that standard sources for tariffs suffer … from substantial measurement error due to misreporting and the resulting false imputation: Countries fail to report tariffs … every year and missing data are more prevalent for preferential than for most favored nation (MFN) tariffs. WITS, the main …

reveal a highly selective move towards protectionism following the adoption of the National Policy in 1879. Changes in the …

-Ohlin and Ricardo-Viner frameworks. In addition, we can separate the efficiency and equity effects of tariffs on welfare. We …

, unlike other import tariffs, AD duties are not absorbed by exporters. The results on firms' average markups also suggest that …

country's relative size or relative average productivity. Furthermore, in the two-country Nash equilibrium, tariffs turn out … to be strategic substitutes. Small or poor economies set lower Nash tariffs than large or rich ones. Lower transportation … costs or smaller fixed market entry costs induce higher equilibrium tariffs and larger welfare losses relative to the case …