Kee, Hiau Looi; Nicita, Alessandro; Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2008
This paper provides a systematic estimation of import demand elasticities for a broad group of countries at a very … disaggregated level of product detail. We use a semiflexible translog GDP function approach to formally derive import demands and … index (TRI). The difference between TRIs and import-weighted tariffs is shown to depend on the tariff variance and the …