Documents et rapports
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Trade, foreign exchange, and energy policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran : reform agenda, economic implications, and impact on the poor (anglais)
The Islamic Republic of Iran has committed itself to substantial trade and market reform in its Third Five-Year Development Plan. It started out with nontariff barriers on all products, a dual exchange...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2768 Date du document: 31 janvier 2002 Auteur: Jensen, Jesper,Tarr, David
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How integration into the Central African Economic and Monetary Community affects Cameroon's economy: general equilibrium estimates (anglais)
The authors quantify the impact on Cameroon of three aspects of its new regional trade agreement with the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (the CEMAC agreement): i) improved access to markets...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1872 Date du document: 31 janvier 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bakoup, Ferdinand,Tarr, David
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Product standards, imperfect competition and completion of the market in the European Union (anglais)
The authors model the static and steady-state effects on trade, production, and market structure of completion of the European Union's (EU's) internal market. The impetus for change comes from the removal...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1293 Date du document: 30 avril 1994 Auteur: Harrison, Glenn,Rutherford, Thomas,Tarr, David,D
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Morocco's free trade agreement with the European community : a quantitative assessment (anglais)
Morocco is interested in developing a reciprocal free trade agreement with the European Community (EC), although it already enjoys free access to EC markets in industrial products and is not obligated...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1173 Date du document: 30 septembre 1993 Auteur: Rutherford, Thomas F.,Rutstrom, E.E.,Tarr, David
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The terms-of-trade effects from the elimination of state trading in Soviet - Hungarian trade (anglais)
Economists have debated whether the Soviet Union subsidized trade with its Eastern European partners in the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). Effective January 1, 1991, former CMEA members...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS690 Date du document: 31 mai 1991 Auteur: Oblath, Gabor,Tarr, David
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VERs under imperfect competition and foreign direct investment : a case study of the U.S. - Japan auto VER (anglais)
In 1981, the United States (U.S.) induced the Japanese to agree to a voluntary export restraint (VER) on their export of autos to the U.S. The countries negotiated the VER against a backdrop of falling...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS667 Date du document: 31 mai 1991 Auteur: de Melo, Jaime,Tarr, David
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Trade and payments arrangements in post-CMEA Eastern and Central Europe (anglais)
A web of trade and payments arrangements binds countries of Eastern and Central Europe under the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) agreements. However, it is incompatible with these countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS644 Date du document: 30 avril 1991 Auteur: Michalopoulos, Constantine,Tarr, David
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Do wage distortions justify protection in the U.S. auto and steel industries? (anglais)
This paper models endogenous union-induced labor market distortions in applied general equilibrium. It also investigates systematically the impact of labor market distortions under different market structure...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS517 Date du document: 31 octobre 1990 Auteur: de Melo, Jaime,Tarr, David
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Revenue raising taxes : general equilibrium evaluation of alternative taxation in U.S. petroleum industries (anglais)
Should the United States increase taxes and tariffs in the energy sector to reduce its federal deficit? This paper uses a twelve sector general equilibrium model to estimate the fiscal effects, and the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS145 Date du document: 28 février 1989 Auteur: de Melo, Jaime,Stanton, Julie,Tarr, David
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Welfare costs of U.S. quotas on textiles, steel, and autos (anglais)
This paper deals with the problems of partial equlibrium analysis by presenting estimates from a static ten sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the U.S. economy calibrated to the year...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS83 Date du document: 30 septembre 1988 Auteur: de Melo, Jaime,Tarr, David