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Economics of Trade Protection

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ISBN-10: 052134669X

ISBN-13: 9780521346696

Edition: 1990

Authors: Neil Vousden

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Over the past two decades there has been a gradual but fundamental change in the nature of trade protection. Even as international negotiation has succeeded in reducing tariffs to low levels, national governments have resorted to a range of increasingly intricate policies to protect their domestic industries from foreign competition. Direct quantitative restrictions on international trade have become particularly widespread. Such nontariff barriers often have very different effects from tariffs and require careful analysis in their own right. This book presents a systematic overview of the modern theory of trade protection. The material in the book divides naturally into four sections. The…    
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Book details

List price: $53.99
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/31/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.990

Preface
Basic international trade theory
Protection for a small country
Import quotas and tariffs: some other issues
Protection for a large country
Monopoly
Oligopoly
Monopolistic competition and product differentiation
Endogenous protection
Approaches to reducing protection I: Unilateral reform
Approaches to reducing protection II: Multilateral reform
Appendices
Notes on chapters
References