-section data. This method has rarely been used in poverty analysis. The results suggest that higher tariffs are associated with …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry …

inputs to a lot of products. Since the tariffs on the inputs are higher than the outputs, the cost of production has remained …

. Protectionism can have many different faces. It can come in the form of Buy-American clauses of stimulus packages, as an increase in … trade barriers or tariffs, or as an increase in export subsidies. In this paper, we show that none of these measures … the short run, they are less effective than general government spending impulses. Raising tariffs or trade barriers even …

services it has not dismantled much of the existing national protectionism. The economic costs are calculated here at some 3 …

Why are empirically observed tariffs so much lower than theoretically calculated Nash-equilibrium tariffs? We argue … allows us to take account of the transitional process after a change in tariffs. (ii) It allows us to take account of the … shortsightedness of policy makers. We show that Nash-equilibrium tariffs based on a dynamic trade model are lower than Nash …