Tariffs, Technology Transfer, and Welfare

Technology and Poultry Welfare

Consideration of animal welfare is essential to address the consumers' demands and for the long term sustainability of commercial poultry. However, assessing welfare in large poultry flocks, to be able to detect potential welfare risks and to control or minimize its impact is difficult. Current developments in technology and mathematical modelling open new possibilities for real-time automatic ...

Opening and Closing Technology Gaps under Safeguard Tariffs

I explore the country-speci city of safeguard tari protection for a country that is experiencing a surge of imports from a trading partner with a new technology. I nd that raising the tari against all trading partners welfare-dominates a targeted country-speci c tari increase. This arises because a broad tari increase is more e ective at helping the importing country close the technology gap it...

A Comparison of Optimal Tariffs and Welfare under No Lobbying, Domestic Lobbying, and Domestic-foreign Lobbying

Whether and what type of the lobbying-induced trade policies can improve the domestic welfare? We show that as compared to the case of no lobbying and the case of domestic lobbying, the domestic-foreign lobbying achieves the lowest tariff and may also realize the highest welfare for the domestic country. Our results suggest that the domestic-foreign lobbying may contribute to a freer trade in t...

Rice Price Stabilization in Madagascar: Price and Welfare Implications of Variable Tariffs

Given the large share of major staples in the budgets of the poor, governments in many developing countries intervene in food markets to limit variation in the prices of staple foods. This paper examines the recent experience of Madagascar in stabilizing prices through international trade and the implications of adjustments in tariff rates. Using a partial equilibrium model, we quantify the ove...

Optimal tariffs, retaliation and the welfare loss from tariff wars in the Melitz model