Market access and welfare: Is there a conflict?

Pascalis Raimondos () and Alan Woodland

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 126, issue C, 163-166

Abstract: Well known tariff reform rules that are guaranteed to increase welfare will not necessarily increase market access, while rules that are guaranteed to increase market access will not necessarily increase welfare. The present paper proposes a new set of tariff reforms that can achieve both objectives at the same time.

Keywords: Piecemeal tariff policy; Locally optimal reforms; Market access (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.12.012

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