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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1988-01)This paper derives first- and second-best levels of optimal tariffs and taxes on internationally mobile capital in a general model of an open economy. When world prices are fixed (so that non-intervention is optimal), ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-06-16)This paper develops a two-country model of trade and factor mobility in which capital is sector-specific but internationally mobile. The model avoids the implausible predictions of specialisation in Heckscher-Ohlin models ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-12)This paper examines positive and normative implications of tariffs in the presence of persuasive advertising. It demonstrates that protection affects imports, the domestic consumer price and the terms of trade directly and ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1987-03)This paper begins by reexamining the equivalence of tariffs and quantitative trade restrictions. It is argued that equivalence holds in extremely general circumstances but that this fact must be interpreted with care, since ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04-05)The debate over the use of tariffs or value added taxes in developing countries has focused on the difficulty of collecting VAT from the informal sector of the economy. This paper contributes by considering this issue ...
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(Federal Reserve, 1999-05-04)The slope of the supply curve for capital equipment has important implications for the macroeconomics of investment and the effects of tax reform on capital accumulation. Goolsbee (1998) has used changes in investment tax ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-12)This paper studies the welfare losses from tariff protection in a general model of a small open economy where some factors are internationally mobile. It is show that, as long as the economy remains incompletely specialised, ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1989-07)This paper explores the role of factor prices in macroeconomic models which embody the frequently-encountered Classical, Keynesian, and Structuralist perspectives on the caused of Irish unemployment. It is argued that ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1992-12-15)In this paper, we investigate techniques for measuring the trade policy equivalent of domestic distortions, using a distance function approach. Our measure, the Trade Restrictiveness Index, is shown to equal the uniform ...
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(Blackwell, 1993)