| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP5799 |
| DP5799 To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy | |
| David de la Croix; Matthias Doepke | |
| 发表日期 | 2006-08-18 |
| 出版年 | 2006 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper introduces the concept of a steepest ascent tariff reform for a small open economy. By construction, it is locally optimal in that it yields the highest gain in utility of any feasible tariff reform vector of the same length. Accordingly, it provides a convenient benchmark for the evaluation of the welfare effectiveness of other well known tariff reform rules, as e.g. the proportional and the concertina rules. We develop the properties of this tariff reform, characterize the sources of the potential welfare gains from tariff reform, use it to establish conditions under which some existing reforms are locally optimal, provide geometric illustrations and compare welfare effectiveness of reforms using numerical examples. Moreover, being a general concept, we apply it to the issue of market access and examine its implications. Overall, the paper?s contribution lies in presenting a theoretical concept where the focus is upon the size of welfare gains accruing from tariff reforms rather than simply with the direction of welfare effects that has been the concern of the literature. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Steepest ascent tariff reforms Piecemeal tariff policy Welfare Market access Small open economy |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp5799 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534637 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | David de la Croix,Matthias Doepke. DP5799 To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy. 2006. |
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