Measuring the impacts of global trade reform with optimal aggregators of distortions

Aggregation of trade distortion measures is essential in applied work, but traditional trade-weighted average measures are egregiously flawed. This paper shows how appropriate tariff aggregation can overcome underestimation of both efficiency and terms-of-trade gains from reform. The improvement is...

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Main Authors:	Laborde Debucquet, David, Martin, Will, van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Inglés
Published:	Wiley 2017
Subjects:	aggregate data trade agreements tariff agreements
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148004