Quality-Improving R&D Activities and Tariff Policy

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...

1 Regulation without a Regulator : the Tariff Policy in Poland

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and assess the tariff policy that TPSA has been pursuing while the regulatory agencies have been remaining entirely indifferent. The most important provisions of the imperfect regulatory framework and market structure are described. The evolution of tariffs, which has not contributed towards the rebalancing during last several years, and their internation...

Pareto-improving tariff-tax reforms under imperfect competition

Article history: Received 29 June 2013 Received in revised form 18 November 2013 Accepted 19 November 2013 Available online 12 December 2013 Constructing a duopoly model with non-constant marginal costs and a strict Pareto criterion, this paper examines welfare effects of world-price-fixing tariff reductions accompanied by adjustments of a domestic tax. If a destination-based consumption tax is...

Chapter 10 : Financial Markets and Monetary Policy ( Monetary Theory and Policy , 3 rd ed . )

Central banks in the major industrialized economies implement policy by intervening in the money market to achieve a target level for a short-term interest rate.1 Why central banks use a short-term interest rate as a policy instrument, and how they achieve the targeted value they set for this rate are topics to be discussed in chapter 11. The focus in this chapter is on the role of …nancial mar...

The Design of Optimal Tariff Policy For Russia