tariffs. Design/methodology/approach - Data utilized were sourced from the World Bank's World Development and Governance …

that offsetting effects on the newly imposed tariffs were substantial. …

, free trade dominates tariffs in welfare rankings …

tariffs rather than subsidies, and find that the existing theoretical literature is consistent with the cross-country evidence …

in which traders operate.Binding tariffs at the WTO reduces the scope for their discretionary use. But, countries have … bound tariffs at ceiling levels often substantially above the level of applied tariffs. Therefore, whether the ceiling rate …. Using a recently built database on applied tariffs covering over 100 countries for the period 1996 to 2009, we find evidence …

they willmove towards free trade, while providing some flexibility for trading offreductions in peak tariffs against …

model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a … WTO bound tariffs that we built for all WTO Members from 1996 to 2011 at the HS 6-digit level of disaggregation. Our …