Elena Ianchovichina, Aaditya Mattoo, Marcelo Olarreaga, Will Martin, Francis Ng, Arvind Subramanian, ...
Initiatives to improve market access for the poorest countries have recently been
Trade in International Maritime Services: How Much Does Policy Matter? (2007)
Carsten Fink, Aaditya Mattoo, Ileana Cristina Neagu, Simon Evenett, Bernard Hoekman, Pierre Latrille, ...
Abstract: Maritime transport costs significantly impede international trade. This paper examines why these costs are so high in some countries, and quantifies the importance of two explanations:...
Can Duty-Drawbacks have a protectionist bias? Evidence from Mercosur (2007)
Olivier Cadot Y, Marcelo Olarreaga X, Isidro Soloaga, T. N. Srinivassan, David Tarr, ...
In a political-economy setting where tari s and duty drawbacks are endoge-nously chosen through industry lobbying, it is shown that full duty-drawbacks are granted to exporters who use imported...
Bernard Hoekman, Constantine Michalopoulos, Maurice Schiff, David Tarr, Brad Mcdonald, Richard Newfarmer, ...
Poverty Reduction Strategy sourcebook as a guide to help the least developed countries employ trade
Alessandro Nicita, Marcelo Olarreaga, Garry Pursell, Maurice Schiff, Isidro Soloaga, David Tarr, ...
Abstract: Exporters ’ performance in a particular market may affect their future exports to the rest of the world. Importers may base their future transaction decisions upon the information...
Director, Copenhagen Economics (2007)
Jesper Jensen, David Tarr, Dorsati Madani, Radwan Shaban
Acknowledgements: This paper is based on a mission to Iran in October-November 2000 which led to the report World Bank (2001). The authors would like to thank the numerous agencies in Iran that...
Regional and multilateral trade liberalization: Considering next steps (2001)
Charnovitz, Steve, Depayre, Gerard, Fauver, Robert, Fried, Jonathan, Hufbauer, Gary, Janow, Merit, ...
Regional and multilateral trade liberalization: Considering next steps (2001)
Charnovitz, Steve, Depayre, Gerard, Fauver, Robert, Fried, Jonathan, Hufbauer, Gary, Janow, Merit, ...
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
Poland, like many developing countries, has required its exporters to surrender a share of their foreign exchange earnings to the government at an overvalued exchange rate. During the late 1980s, it...
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...
Bakoup, Ferdinand, Tarr, David
The authors quantify the impact on Cameroon of three aspects of its new regional trade agreement with the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (the CEMAC agreement): i) improved access to...
Morocco's free trade agreement with the European community : a quantitative assessment
Rutherford, Thomas F., Rutstrom, E.E., Tarr, David
Morocco is interested in developing a reciprocal free trade agreement with the European Community (EC), although it already enjoys free access to EC markets in industrial products and is not...
Product standards, imperfect competition and completion of the market in the European Union
Harrison, Glenn, Rutherford, Thomas, Tarr, David
The authors model the static and steady-state effects on trade, production, and market structure of completion of the European Union's (EU's) internal market. The impetus for change comes from the...
Telecommunications reform within Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization
Jensen, Jesper, Rutherford, Thomas, Tarr, David
In World Trade Organization (WTO) accession negotiations, telecommunications is always a sector that receives close scrutiny by the WTO Working Party, and the extent of market access and...
De Melo, Jaime, Stanton, Julie, Tarr, David
Should the United States increase taxes and tariffs in the energy sector to reduce its federal deficit? This paper uses a twelve sector general equilibrium model to estimate the fiscal effects, and...
Trade and direct investment in producer services and the domestic market for expertise
James Markusen, Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr
Foreign producer services can provide substantial benefits for domestic firms. We build on earlier monopolistic-competition models of intermediate producer services in this paper. Results show that:...
The economics of customs unions in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Michalopoulos, Constantine, Tarr, David
In the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union, trade among the new independent states collapsed. To help reestablish interstate trade, the 12 members of the Commonwealth of independent States...
Harrison, Glenn W., Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr,David, Gurgel, Angelo
The authors estimate that the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), the EU-MERCOSUR agreement, and multilateral trade policy changes will all be beneficial for Brazil. The Brazilian government...
Foreign direct investment in services and the domestic market for expertise
Markusen, James, Rutherford, Thomas F., Tarr, David
A growing body of evidence suggests that the close availability of diverse business services is important for economic growth. Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can...
Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford, Tarr,David
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 reform and poverty alleviation
Hoekman, Bernard, Michalopoulos, Constantine, Schiff, Maurice, Tarr, David
In this paper, developed as part of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook, the authors examine how to implement trade liberalization as part of a strategy for alleviating poverty in...
Regional impacts of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization
Rutherford, Thomas, Tarr, David
In this paper we develop a computable general equilibrium model of the regions of Russia to assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the regions of Russia. We estimate...
Industrial Policy in the Presence of Wage Distortion: The Case of the US Auto and Steel Industries
This paper examines the welfare effects of protection in two sectors characterized by high wage premia, autos and steel, to determine if protection is justified to correct for the labor misallocation...
The impact of Kazakhstan accession to the World Trade Organization : a quantitative assessment
In this paper the authors use a computable general equilibrium model of the Kazakhstan economy to assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which encompasses (1) improved...
Jesper Jensen, Thomas Rutherford, David Tarr
In this paper a computable general equilibrium model of the Russian economy is used to assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which encompasses improved market access,...
This paper examines the welfare effects of protection in two high wage premia sectors--autos and steel--to determine if protection is justified to correct for the labor misallocation due to the wage...
Adjusting to trade policy reform
Matusz, Steven J., Tarr, David
Virtually all of the studies that quantify the adjustment costs of trade liberalization relative to the benefits point to the conclusion that adjustment costs are small in relation to the benefits of...
The Islamic Republic of Iran has committed itself to substantial trade and market reform in its Third Five-Year Development Plan. It started out with nontariff barriers on all products, a dual...
Jensen, Jesper, Rutherford, Thomas, Tarr, David
The authors use a computable general equilibrium model of the Russian economy to assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which encompasses improved market access, tariff...
Rutherford, Thomas, Tarr, David, Shepotylo, Oleksandr
The authors use a computable general equilibrium comparative static model of the Russian economy to assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on income distribution and the...
Rutherford, Thomas, Tarr, David, Shepotylo, Oleksandr
Taking price changes from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model of world trade, the authors use a small open economy computable general equilibrium comparative static model of the Russian...
Tarr, David, Navaretti, Giorgio Barba
This paper is the introduction and summary chapter of the 43 chapter volume entitled Handbook of Trade Policy and WTO Accession for Development in Russia and the CIS. The key policy conclusions of...
Do wage distortions justify protection in the U.S. auto and steel industries?
This paper models endogenous union-induced labor market distortions in applied general equilibrium. It also investigates systematically the impact of labor market distortions under different market...
Trade and payments arrangements in post-CMEA Eastern and Central Europe
Michalopoulos, Constantine, Tarr, David
A web of trade and payments arrangements binds countries of Eastern and Central Europe under the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) agreements. However, it is incompatible with these...
In 1981, the United States (U.S.) induced the Japanese to agree to a voluntary export restraint (VER) on their export of autos to the U.S. The countries negotiated the VERagainst a backdrop of...
The terms-of-trade effects from the elimination of state trading in Soviet - Hungarian trade
Economists have debated whether the Soviet Union subsidized trade with its Eastern European partners in the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). Effective January 1, 1991, former CMEA...
Trade liberalization and the transition to a market economy
Havrylyshyn, Oleh, Tarr, David
The focus of this paper is on the transition from a trade regime in a socialist economy to one based on a (more) liberal market economy. Thus, there is no need to detail the past and current nature...
To assess the impact of price and trade reform on the Polish market for autos and color televisions, the author has developed a differentiated product model in which consumers maximize utility and...
Welfare costs of U.S. quotas on textiles, steel, and autos
This paper deals with the problems of partial equlibrium analysis by presenting estimates from a static ten sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the U.S. economy calibrated to the...
Iran is committed to substantial trade and market reform in its Third Five Year Development Plan. It started, however, with nontariff barriers on all products, a dual exchange rate regime with the...
The structure of import tariffs in the Russian Federation : 2001-05
Shepotylo, Oleksandr, Tarr, David
The Russian tariffstructure contains over 11,000 tariff lines of which about 1,700 use the so-called"combined"tariff rate system. For the combined system tariff lines, the actual tariff applied by...
Russian WTO accession : what has been accomplished, what can be expected
This paper summarizes the principal reform commitments that Russia has undertaken as part of its World Trade Organization (WTO) accession negotiations, providing detailed assessments in banking,...
Welfare Costs of US Quotas in Textiles, Steel and Autos
This paper quantifies welfare costs and resource shifts that would occur if US quantitative restrictions in textiles, steel and autos were removed. Estimates are derived from a static ten-sector...
This paper simulates the costs of the US-Japan auto VER. Under a standard constant returns to scale (CRTS) formulation, the costs are estimated at about $10 billion. It then sequentially introduces...
Welfare Costs of U.S. Quotas in Textiles, Steel and Autos.
This paper quantifies the welfare effects and resource shifts that would occur if U.S. quantitative restrictions in textiles, steel, and autos were removed. Estimates are derived from a static...
Regional household and poverty effects of Russia's accession to the world trade organization
Rutherford, Thomas, Tarr, David
This paper develops a seven-region comparative static computable general equilibrium model of Russia to assess the impact of accession tothe World Trade Organization on these seven regions (the...
Foreign Direct Investments in Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise
James R. Markusen, Thomas F. Rutherford, David Tarr
Producer services such as managerial and engineering consulting can provide domestic firms with the substantial benefits of specialized knowledge that would be costly in terms of both time and money...
We employ a computable general equilibrium model of the Kazakh economy to assess the effect of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO). Our model incorporates foreign direct investment by...
Specific Tariffs, Tariff Simplification, and the Structure of Import Tariffs in Russia, 2001-2005
Oleksandr Shepotylo, David Tarr
The Russian tariff structure contains over 11,000 tariff lines. Of these, a specific tariff may apply for about 1,700. Due to a new data set, this is the first paper to accurately assess tariff...