Chen, Bo; Ma, Hong; Xu, Yuan - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 994-1006
Neither simple average nor import-weighted average tariff indexes are ideal measures of tariff barriers. In this paper, we propose a generalized trade restrictiveness index (GTRI) that extends Feenstra’s (1995) tariff restrictiveness index (TRI) by relaxing the crucial assumption of a small...