Most debates about the role of tariff cuts on the level of employment and rate of wages in labor market have come out of well-known Hecscher – Ohlin and Stopler – Samuelson (HOS) theorems. Considering the fact that we have divided the workforce into skilled and unskilled labors the present paper assesses the impacts of tariff cuts on labor market indicators in Iran. To address these issues...

In this paper, we study the influence of QoS pricing strategy in the future QoS Internet market. We create a Bertrand duopoly game model with different pricing schemes: One ISP with flat rate pricing for its QoS service and the other ISP with two part tariff, a combined pricing scheme with flat rate and usage-sensitive pricing. Based on industry survey data, we conduct a simulation of a random ...

This paper develops the theory of the optimal tariff under the Byrd Amendment when producers are also processors. The optimal tariff in this case is equal to the optimal processor tariff (when the processor is not also a producer) and is smaller than the optimal producer tariff (when the producer is not also a processor). In a vertical market structure, the welfare of a producer/processor (P/P)...

We model agents’ incentives to invest in production of export goods when governments are commitment constrained with respect to their trade obligations. Once irreversible investments have been undertaken, the governments have incentives to renegotiate the tariff rates to higher values. The renegotiations are costly; the greater the tariff rate adjustment, the greater the expenses. We find that ...

At present WTO member countries use a total of 1425 tariff rate quotas (TRQs) on agricultural products. The implementation of TRQs was envisaged, among other things, as a means to improve market access for developing countries’ exports. Since most of the developing countries are potentially large exporters of agricultural products and market access opportunities for exporters from developing co...

Firstly we shall introduce the development situation of China’s textile industry from international trade perspective, and then analyze the current international trade competition focusing on international trade barriers which consist of tariff and non-tariff barriers respectively. Finally we propose that increasing non-tariff barriers to China’s textile exportation are due to lower tariff, tra...

Hayakawa, Kazunobu—How serious is the omission of bilateral tariff rates in gravity? This paper presents a constructed dataset of worldwide bilateral tariff rates to explore the seriousness of omitting bilateral tariff rates from gravity equations. Results indicate, first, that omitting bilateral tariff rates presents no serious issue related to the omitted variable bias because coefficients fo...