The Mercantilist Index of Trade Policy.
This paper develops and characterizes an index of trade policy restrictiveness defined as the uniform tariff equivalent which maintains the same volume of trade as a given set of tariffs, quota, and domestic taxes and subsidies. We relate this volume-equivalent index to the Trade Restrictiveness Ind...
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| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
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National Bureau of Economic Research
1999
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