Bond, Eric W.; Duan, Yuwan; Ji, Ting; Lu, Yi - 2021
While China was reducing tariffs as part of the WTO accession process, it was also effectively restricting exports in … based on tariffs alone. We also use our model to solve for China’s optimal export taxes and calculate the impact of optimal …-country Ricardian model to examine the extent to which these de facto export tax changes benefited China and nullified the benefits to …