Nuno Limao

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)...

Tariff retaliation versus financial compensation in the enforcement of international trade agreements

Limao, Nuno, Saggi, Kamal

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...

Trade preferences to small developing countries and the welfare costs of lost multilateral liberalization

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...

The clash of liberalizations : preferential versus multilateral trade liberalization in the European Union

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...

Are Preferential Trade Agreements with Non-trade Objectives a Stumbling Block for Multilateral Liberalization?

NUNO LIMAO

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

Nuno Limao, Arvind Panagariya

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 Clash of Liberalizations: Preferential versus Multilateral Trade Liberalization in the European Union

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...

THE CLASH OF LIBERALIZATIONS: PREFERENTIAL VS. MULTILATERAL TRADE LIBERALIZATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

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

Nuno Limao, Arvind Panagariya

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)...