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Welfare versus Market Access: The Implications of Tariff Structure for Tariff Reform.
- Abstract:
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We show that the effects of tariff changes on welfare and import volume can be fully characterised by their effects on the generalised mean and variance of the tariff distribution. Using these tools, we derive new results for welfare- and market-access-improving tariff changes, which imply two "cones of liberalisation" in price space. Because welfare is negatively but import volume positively related to the generalised variance, the cones do not intersect, which poses a dilemma for trade poli...
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- Publisher:
- Boston College Department of Economics
- Volume:
- 601
- Series:
- Boston College Working Papers in Economics
- Host title:
- Boston College Working Papers in Economics
- Publication date:
- 2004-01-01
- Paper number:
- 601
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- Language:
- English
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:11564
- Deposit date:
- 2011-08-16
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- Copyright date:
- 2004
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