Welfare versus Market Access: The Implications of Tariff Structure for Tariff Reform.
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 "...
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| Materialtyp: | Working paper |
| Språk: | English |
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Boston College Department of Economics
2004
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