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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-07-11)We introduce an index of trade policy restrictiveness defined as the uniform tariff which maintains the same trade volume as a given tariff/quota structure. Our index overcomes the problems of the trade-weighted average ...
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(University College Dublin. Environmental Institute, 2003)This policy brief identifies the major elements that determine the trade and competitiveness effects of the introduction of an emission-trading regime. These effects depend most of all on the breadth of the emissions ...
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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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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1997-09-24)This paper explores the links between international trade theory and the practice of trade and industrial policy in open economies, with special attention to three areas where theoretical lessons have been misunderstood ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-08)This paper reviews the theory of foreign direct investment (FDI), focusing on an apparent con‡ict between theory and recent trends in the globalized world. The bulk of FDI is horizontal rather than vertical, but horizontal ...
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(Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, 1991-11)This paper gives a general framework for analyzing a trade divergence that runs across both the New International trade theory and the traditional analysis of export policy. The source of the trade divergence, the motive ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-10-23)There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction of firm heterogeneity into trade models. However, these models tend to rely heavily on symmetry assumptions and assume melting iceberg ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-06-23)I review and extend three approaches to trade and environmental policies: competitive general equilibrium, oligopoly and monopolistic competition. The first two have surprisingly similar implications; deviation deviations ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04)There has been great focus in the recent trade theory literature on the introduction of firm heterogeneity into trade models. This introduction has highlighted the importance of the entry/exit decision of firms in response ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-11)In this paper, trade policy formation is incorporated into an economic geography model. The political setup used is a modified version of that introduced by Grossman and Helpman (1994) in which policy makers may be influenced ...