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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Tariffs, quotas and terms-of-trade: the case of New Zealand
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Liliana Winkelmann
  • Rainer Winkelmann
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of International Economics
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0022-1996
Volume 46
Number 2
Page Range 313 - 332
Date 1998
Abstract Text This paper reports quantitative information on the effects of tariffs and quotas on prices of individual goods. The analyses uses the natural experiment provided by a comprehensive unilateral trade policy reform in New Zealand to examine the response of foreign exporters to an incident of liberalisation that is unique in the developed world. The price effects of tariffs and quotas are estimated using a multidestination 7-digit longitudinal product-level dataset on export values and quantities. The effects are found to be by no means equivalent: whereas tariffs display no significant effect, the impact that quantitative restrictions have on the terms-of-trade of the country that imposes them are unequivocally detrimental and quantitatively important.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/S0022-1996(97)00050-0
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