Applied Trade Policy Modeling in 16 Countries : Insights and Impacts from World Bank Cge Based Projects


David G. Tarr
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Singapore : : World Scientific Publishing Company, , 2014.
Omfang
1 online resource (548 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; 1. Introduction and Overview; 1. Trade Policy: Quantitative Restraints, Foreign Exchange Surrender and Uniformity; 1.1. Welfare Costs of U.S. Quotas in Textiles, Steel and Autos, de Melo and Tarr (1990), Review of Economics and Statistics; 1.2. Reforming Hungarian Agricultural Trade Policy: A Quantitative Evaluation, Morkre and Tarr (1995), Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv; 1.3. Second-Best Foreign Exchange Policy in the Presence of Domestic Price Controls and Export Subsidies, Tarr (1990), World Bank Economic Review. - 1.4. Trade Reform in the Partially Liberalized Economy of Turkey, Harrison, Rutherford and Tarr (1993), World Bank Economic Review2. Evaluating the Impact of Services and FDI with Endogenous Productivity Effects; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. The Impact of Liberalizing Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment in Services: the Case of Russian Accession to the World Trade Organization, Jensen, Rutherford and Tarr(2007), Review of Development Economics. - 2.3. Regional Impacts of Liberalization of Barriers against Foreign Direct Investment in Services: The Case of Russia's Accessionto the WTO, Rutherford and Tarr (2010), Review of International Economics2.4. Impact of Local Content Restrictions and Barriers Against Foreign Direct Investment in Services: The Case of Kazakhstan Accession to the WTO, Jensen and Tarr (2008), Eastern European Economics; 2.5. Modeling Services Liberalization: The case of Tanzania, Jensen, Rutherford and Tarr (2010), Journal of Economic Integration; 2.6. Policy Impacts in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. - 3. Trade and Poverty3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Trade Policy and Poverty Reduction in Brazil, Harrison, Rutherford, Tarr and Gurgel (2004), World Bank Economic Review; 3.3. Trade Liberalization, Poverty and Efficient Equity, Harrison, Rutherford and Tarr (2003), Journal of Development Economics; 3.3.1. Factor Intensities in Input Output tables; 3.3.2. Side-payment feasibility; 3.3.3. Decomposition analysis; 3.4. Poverty Effects of Russia's WTO Accession: Modeling "real" households with endogenous productivity effects, Rutherford and Tarr (2008), Journal of International Economics. - 3.4.1. Solving the Problem of Incorporating all Households in the Household Budget Survey as Agents in the Model3.4.2. Overcoming Stolper-Samuelson Pessimism; 3.4.3. Reconciliation of Data Between the Household Survey and the Input-Output table; 3.5. Trade, Exchange Rate and Energy Pricing Reform in Iran: Potentially Large Efficiency Effects and Gains to the Poor, Jensen and Tarr (2003), Review of Development Economics; 3.5.1. Unusually large welfare gains due to massive distortions; 3.5.2. Commodity subsidies are an inefficient method of helping the poor and may be very regressive. - 4. Regionalism. - This book focuses on the World Bank projects, led by the author, based on computable general equilibrium models of international trade policy. The chapters show an unusual combination of policy relevance, advice and impact, with academic rigor and international trade theory insights. The author discusses some of the policy contexts for the requests from developing and transition countries to the World Bank, the key trade theory or policy insights, policy recommendations and conclusions, and the policy impacts. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview (283 KB). Contents: Introduc
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Dewey
382 . - 382.3
ISBN
9789814551427

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