UID:
almafu_9960120078902883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 305 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-87329-8
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0-511-57197-6
Content:
Over the past two decades there has been a gradual but fundamental change in the nature of trade protection. Even as international negotiation has succeeded in reducing tariffs to low levels, national governments have resorted to a range of increasingly intricate policies to protect their domestic industries from foreign competition. Direct quantitative restrictions on international trade have become particularly widespread. Such nontariff barriers often have very different effects from tariffs and require careful analysis in their own right. This book presents a systematic overview of the modern theory of trade protection. The material in the book divides naturally into four sections. The first section covers trade restrictions in competitive markets, the second trade restrictions and imperfect competition, the third the political economy of trade protection, and the fourth the theory of policy reform. The presentation makes extensive use of diagrams, with the more difficult mathematics included in six appendixes. This approach emphasises microeconomics and makes the book suitable for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the social sciences who have taken one intermediate microeconomics course.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication; Contents ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; I PROTECTION WITH COMPETITIVE MARKETS ; 1 Basic international trade theory ; 1.1 The Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model ; 1.2 Factor intensities, factor prices and product prices. 1.3 Factor endowments and the Rybczynski theorem 1.4 Specific factors and income distribution in the short run ; 1.5 Determination of world prices ; 1.6 Summary ; 2 Protection for a small country ; 2.1 Tariffs in the HOS model ; 2.2 Tariffs and non-economic objectives. 2.3 Quantitative restrictions 2.4 Local content schemes ; 2.5 Export subsidies ; 2.6 Export taxes and the Lerner symmetry theorem ; 2.7 Preferential government procurement policies ; 2.8 Measuring the costs of a tariff ; 2.9 Effective protection ; 2.10 Summary. 3 Import quotas and tariffs: Some other issues 3.1 Quotas and heterogeneous product categories ; 3.2 Dynamic non-equivalence of tariffs and quotas ; 3.3 Tariffs and quotas under uncertainty ; 3.4 The rent-seeking cost of tariffs and quotas ; 3.5 Summary. 4 Protection for a large country 4.1 The optimal tariff ; 4.2 Tariffs and retaliation ; 4.3 Quotas and retaliation ; 4.4 Voluntary export restraints ; 4.5 Variable import levies and export subsidies ; 4.6 Summary ; II PROTECTION AND IMPERFECT COMPETITION ; 5 Monopoly
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-34669-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-34661-4
Language:
English
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511571978
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