An extension of the trade restrictiveness index to large economies

Sami Dakhlia and Akram Temimi ()
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Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1)

Abstract: The Trade Restrictiveness Index (TRI) introduced by Anderson and Neary (1994) provided the first theoretically satisfying measure of a country's tariff structure by overcoming the problem of ad hoc specification of indexing weights and the related index number problem. We observe, however, that the TRI may not be unique when countries are large. As a remedy, we propose a simple extension

Keywords: Trade Restrictiveness Index; index number; tariffs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 D58 D78 F17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7 pages
Date: 2004-05
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Journal Article: An Extension of the Trade Restrictiveness Index to Large Economies* (2006)
Working Paper: An Extension of the Trade Restrictiveness Index to Large Economies (2004)
Working Paper: An Extension of the Trade Restrictiveness Index to Large Economies (2004)
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