Consistent Trade Policy Aggregation

James Anderson ()

No 702, Boston College Working Papers in Economics from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: Much empirical work requires the aggregation of policies. This paper provides methods of policy aggregation that are consistent with two common objectives of empirical work. One is to preserve real income. The other is to preserve the real volume of activity in one or more parts of the economy. Trade policy aggregation is an acute example of the aggregation problem with thousands of highly dispersed trade barriers to be aggregated. An application to India shows that the standard atheoretic method of aggregation is seriously misleading compared to the consistent method.

Keywords: trade barriers; policy aggregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-05-01

Forthcoming, International Economic Review

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