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Efficient Feed-In-Tariff Policies for Renewable Energy Technologies

Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade

that restrict trade between countries in agricultural commodities. Many of these policies are now subject to important disciplines under the 1994 GATT agreement that is administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The paper is organized as follows. First, tariffs, import quotas, and tariff rate quotas are discussed. Then, a series of non-tariff barriers to trade are examined, including v...

Do Protectionist Trade Policies Protect? The Unintended Consequences of an Antidumping Tariff

r buyer's signed to petition. ion Introduction Economics is an essential input into policy decision making if for no other reason than its ability to identify unintended consequences of otherwise well-intended policy initiatives (Harberger, 1993). This is perhaps especially true for trade policy, where interest groups seek policy benefits while ignoring the feedback effects from international m...

Beyond Tariff Equivalents

The services sector is the next frontier in trade liberalization, and progress in this area is likely to bring enormous economic gain to developed and developing economies. A major impediment to services trade liberaliza­ tion, however, is the lack of rigorous analytical work on its potential impact. Our aim in this paper is to propel the policy relevant research forward. Restrictions on servic...

Tariff Optimization in Networks

W consider the problem of determining a set of optimal tariffs for an agent in the network, who owns a subset of all the arcs, and who receives revenue by setting the tariffs on the arcs he owns. Multiple rational clients are active in the network, who route their demands on the least expensive paths from source to destination. The cost of a path is determined by fixed costs and tariffs on the ...