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Historically, tariffs have been an attractive policy tool to protect domestic industries. The benefits of such a policy …
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To identify transactions at risk of tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data from France with import transaction data from Madagascar using container identifiers. Reporting discrepancies between exporters and importers are prevalent but small, with over two-fifths of importers...
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Solution (WITS), and selection bias from dropping tariffs when no trade is recorded. I develop a novel interpolation algorithm …
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What causes U.S. trade with Mexico and Canada to continue growing faster, for up to a decade, relative to countries … delayed pass-through of tariffs into import prices could cause such prolonged differential import growth. We examine how … tariff cuts negotiated under the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) affected …
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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South-East of England in conjunction with an universal metering pro-gramme. We document how inertia leads customers to relinquish substantial financial gains, with less than a third of...
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climate policy community. Key remaining parties to the Agreement such as Europe and China might call for carbon tariffs on US … advocates of carbon tariffs: Given the possibility of retaliatory tariffs across all imported goods, carbon tariffs do not …
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President Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized … difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the … local labor market's reliance on steel as an input and as part of local production. We find the tariffs did not boost local …
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card platforms, adopt multi-part tariffs. We show that ad valorem taxes can correct underprovision and hence increase … result in different settings, including vertically interlinked markets, markets where firms adopt menus of tariffs to screen … consumers and where they compete with multi-part tariffs. Our results suggest that exempting these markets from taxation may be …
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We study, theoretically and empirically, how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins when they … to a customs union (where members coordinate external tariffs). Moreover, in customs unions (but not necessarily in free …
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with input-output connections. Sanctioning countries choose import tariffs to simultaneously maximize their income and … on Russia's mining and energy products - with tariffs above 50% on other products - is the most cost-efficient policy …
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