18/Oct/00 Infrastructure, Geographical Disadvantage and Transport Costs (2007)
Anthony J. Venables, A. J. Venables, Nuno Limão, Nuno Limão
We use several different data sets to investigate the dependence of transport costs on geography and infrastructure. Poor infrastructure accounts for 40 % of predicted transport costs for coastal...
Anthony J. Venables, A. J. Venables, Nuno Limão, Nuno Limão
We use several different data sets to investigate the dependence of transport costs on geography and infrastructure. Infrastructure is an important determinant of transport costs, especially for...
Optimal Tariffs: The Evidence (2007)
Broda, Christian, Limão, Nuno, Weinstein, David E.
The theoretical debate over whether countries can and should set tariffs in response to the foreign export elasticities they face goes back to Edgeworth (1894). Despite the centrality of the optimal...
Limão, Nuno, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The proliferation of preferential trade liberalization over the last 20 years has raised the question of whether it slows multilateral trade liberalization. Recent theoretical and empirical evidence...
Limão, Nuno, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The proliferation of preferential trade liberalization over the last 20 years has raised the question of whether it slows multilateral trade liberalization. Recent theoretical and empirical evidence...
Geographical disadvantage: a Heckscher-Ohlin-von Thünen model of international specialisation (2002)
The proliferation of preferential trade liberalization over the last 20 years has raised the question of whether it slows multilateral trade liberalization. Recent theoretical and empirical evidence...
Broda, Christian, Limão, Nuno, Weinstein, David E
The theoretical debate over whether countries can and should set tariffs in response to export elasticities goes back over a century to the writings of Edgeworth (1894) and Bickerdike (1907). Despite...
We analyze whether financial compensation is preferable to the current system of dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization that permits member countries to impose retaliatory tariffs in...
Geographical Disadvantage: A Heckscher-Ohlin-Von Thunen model of International Specialization
Limão, Nuno, Venables, Anthony J.
We analyze the trade and production patterns of countries located at varying distances from an economic centre. Exports and imports of final and intermediate goods bear transport costs that increase...
Increasingly, in regional agreements, large economies, e.g. U.S. and E.U., offer lower trade barriers in exchange for cooperation by small economies in environmental, intellectual property and other...
If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non-pecuniary externalities), will this promote more cooperation in both policies or will...
Why is there an Anti-trade Bias in Trade Policy?
Small economies rarely embrace free trade, a fact that is commonly explained as a consequence of the government's use of trade policy to redistribute income. But why is this redistribution typically...
Government Gains from Self-Restraint: A Bargaining Theory of Inefficient Redistribution Policies
We consider a bargaining model of the interaction between a government and interest groups in which, unlike existing models, neither side is assumed to have all the bargaining power. The government...
Most countries are members of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). The effect of these agreements has attracted much interest and raised the question of whether PTAs promote or slow down...
Karacaovali, Baybars, Limão, Nuno
There has been an explosion in the number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the last decade. PTAs are characterized by liberalization with respect to only a few partners and thus, they can...
Limão, Nuno, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The proliferation of preferential trade liberalization over the last 20 years has raised the question of whether it slows down multilateral trade liberalization. Recent theoretical and empirical...
A BARGAINING THEORY OF INEFFICIENT REDISTRIBUTION POLICIES
When two policies are available to achieve the same goal why is the relatively inefficient one often observed? We address this question in the context of policies used to redistribute income towards...
Karacaovali, Baybars, Limão, Nuno
Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are characterized by liberalization with respect to only a few partners and thus they can potentially clash with, and retard multilateral trade liberalization...
We analyze whether financial compensation is preferable to the WTO's current dispute settlement system that permits injured member countries to impose retaliatory tariffs. We show that, ex-post,...
Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from Commitment via International Trade Agreements
Why do governments employ inefficient policies to redistribute income towards special interest groups (SIGs) when more efficient ones are available? To address this puzzle we derive and test...