著者

ROBERT G. CHAMBERS

出版者

JAPANESE ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION

雑誌

The Economic Studies Quarterly (ISSN:0557109X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.45, no.3, pp.246-264, 1994-09-20 (Released:2008-02-28)

参考文献数

26

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The optimal design of tariff policies is considered in a simple general-equilibrium model that reflects many of the real-world constraints placed on tariff design and reform. Sufficient conditions for an uniform tariff structure to be optimal are deduced, these involve quasi-separability of the trade-expenditure function. A number of partial tariff-reform measures are considered. Determining the appropriate direction that tariff reform should take depends critically upon the marginal effect raising or lowering a tariff has on the production of importables and exportables.