Tariffs, Enforcement, and Customs Evasion: Evidence from India (2008)
Prachi Mishra, International Monetary Fund, Beata Javorcik, Charles Kramer, Nuno Limao, Aaditya Mattoo, ...
This paper is forthcoming in the Journal of Public Economics. We examine the effect of tariff policies on evasion of customs duties, in the context of the trade reform in India of the 1990s. By...
Anti-trade Bias in Trade Policy and General Equilibrium (2004)
Limao, Nuno, Panagariya, Arvind
An important question that has continued to elude trade economists is why trade interventions are biased in favor of import-competing rather than exportable sectors. Indeed, as Philip Levy (1999)...
Anti-trade Bias in Trade Policy and General Equilibrium (2004)
Limao, Nuno, Panagariya, Arvind
An important question that has continued to elude trade economists is why trade interventions are biased in favor of import-competing rather than exportable sectors. Indeed, as Philip Levy (1999)...
Anti-trade Bias in Trade Policy and General Equilibrium (2004)
Limao, Nuno, Panagariya, Arvind
An important question that has continued to elude trade economists is why trade interventions are biased in favor of import-competing rather than exportable sectors. Indeed, as Philip Levy (1999)...
Anti-trade Bias in Trade Policy and General Equilibrium (2004)
Limao, Nuno, Panagariya, Arvind
An important question that has continued to elude trade economists is why trade interventions are biased in favor of import-competing rather than exportable sectors. Indeed, as Philip Levy (1999)...
The authors 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...
Infrastructure, geographical disadvantage, and transport costs
Limao, Nuno, Venables, Anthony J.
The authors use three different data sets to investigate how transport depends on geography and infrastructure. Landlocked countries have high transport costs, which can be substantially reduced by...
Limao, Nuno, Olarreaga, Marcelo
The proliferation of preferential trade liberalization over the past 20 years has raised the question of whether it slows down multilateral trade liberalization. Recent theoretical and empirical...
Geographical disadvantage - a Heckscher-Ohlin-von Thunen model of international specialization
Venables, Anthony J., Limao, Nuno
The combination of distance, poor infrastructure, and being landlocked by neighbors with poor infrastructure, can make transport costs many times higher for some developing countries than for most...
Karacaovali, Baybars, Limao, Nuno
There has been an explosion in the number of preferential trade agreements in the past decade. Preferential trade agreements are characterized by liberalization with respect to only a few partners...
In many preferential trade agreements (PTAs), countries exchange not only reductions in trade barriers but also cooperation in non-trade issues such as labour and environmental standards,...
Anti-trade Bias in Trade Policy and General Equilibrium
An important question that has continued to elude trade economists is why trade interventions are biased in favor of import-competing rather than exportable sectors. Indeed, as Philip Levy (1999)...
Baybars Karacaovali, Nuno Limao
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...
Optimal Tariffs and Market Power: The Evidence
Christian Broda, Nuno Limao, David E. Weinstein
We find that prior to World Trade Organization membership, countries set import tariffs 9 percentage points higher on inelastically supplied imports relative to those supplied elastically. The...
Baybars Karacaovali, Nuno Limao
This paper considers the impact of preferential trade liberalization (PTL) on multilateral trade liberalization (MTL), focusing on the European Union. The model that we develop, which builds on...
Anti-trade Bias in Trade Policy and General Equilibrium
An important question that has continued to elude trade economists is why trade interventions are biased in favor of import-competing rather than exportable sectors. Indeed, as Philip Levy (1999)...