Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F, David G. Tarr, The World Bank
Most interesting results on the welfare effects of regional arrangements are ambiguous at a theoretical level. Many questions only have quantitative answers that are specific to the particular...
Trade Policy and Poverty Reduction in Brazil (2004)
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G., Gurgel, Angelo
A multiregion computable general equilibrium model is used to evaluate the regional, multilateral, and unilateral trade policy options of Mercosur from the perspective of the welfare of all potential...
Trade Liberalization, Poverty and Efficient Equity (2003)
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr
Even if trade liberalization results in the aggregate welfare gains over all households, it is possible that the poorest households could lose. Is it possible to undertake the reform in such a way...
International Knowledge Flows and Economic Performance: A Review of the Evidence (2000)
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba, Tarr, David G.
An empirical analysis of the microeconomic links between trade and knowledge diffusion is useful for singling out some of the key predictions of the theory of endogenous growth in open economies....
Trade Protection Lessons from Experience (2000)
Howard J. Shatz, David G. Tarr
Lessons from world experience about the consequences of exchange rate overvaluation (the frequent cause of trade crises), the consequences of trying to defend an overvalued exchange rate, and the...
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, Angelo Gurgel, Jel F, David Tarr, ...
The authors would like to thank the seminar participants at IPEA in Brasilia and BNDES in Rio de Janeiro, numerous agencies of the government of Brazil and Brazilian institutes and scholars
The welfare costs of price controls can vary enormously, depending on the method of allocating the good in shortage and the possible rent-seeking costs that may result. With full rent dissipation,...
Trade Reform in the Partially Liberalized Economy of Turkey (1993)
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Recent reforms in trade policy in Turkey have produced a foreign trade regime that exhibits very little antiexport bias on average. A quantitative, multisectoral general equilibrium model of the...
In this article a model is developed to evaluate the impact on an exporting country of a restraint imposed on its export by an importing economy in the context of a three-region model of world trade...
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr, David Tarr
Abstract: Using a multi-sector multi-country computable general equilibrium model, we examine Chile’s strategy of negotiating bilateral free trade agreements with all of its significant trading...
Economic implications for Turkey of a customs union with the European Union
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Turkey and the European Union (EU) have agreed to implement a customs union. This means Turkey will eliminate its tariffs and levies on imports on manufactured products from the EU. Turkey will also...
Trade policy options for Chile : a quantitative evaluation
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Chile is currently evaluating a wide range of possible trade policies. Using a global computable general equilibrium model, the authors examine a range of trade policy and complementary tax policy...
Trade liberalization and endogenous growth in a small open economy : a quantitative assessment
Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
The authors develop a numerical endogenous growth model approximating an infinite horizon, which allows them to investigate the relationship between trade liberalization and economic growth. Economic...
Exchange rate overvaluation and trade protection - lessons from experience
Shatz, Howard J., Tarr, David G.
Despite a trend toward more flexible rates, more than half the world's countries maintain fixed or managed exchange rates. In the 1980s and 1990s, developing countries as a group progressively...
Modeling services liberalization : the case of Kenya
Balistreri, Edward J., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
This paper employs a 55 sector small open economy computable general equilibrium model of the Kenyan economy to assess the impact of the liberalization of regulatory barriers against foreign and...
Piecemeal trade reform in partially liberalized economies : an evaluation for Turkey
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
Turkey undertook a major liberalization of trade policy in the 1980s. Import quotas disappeared, the Turkish lira was made convertible, and tariffs are generally lower. Those changes and the export...
Trade Policy Options for Chile: The Importance of Market Access
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr
This article uses a multisector, multicountry, computable general equilibrium model to examine Chile's strategy of "additive regionalism"---negotiating bilateral free trade...
Modeling services liberalization: The case of Kenya
Balistreri, Edward J., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David G.
This paper employs a 55 sector small open economy computable general equilibrium model of the Kenyan economy to assess the impact of the liberalization of regulatory barriers against foreign and...