Trade Policies For Development And Transition

by David G Tarr

Overview

The author has virtually incomparable experience in both providing trade policy advice to more than 25 countries on behalf of the World Bank and also publishing quality journal articles in most of those cases. In this volume, he focuses on his work on: (i) trade policies for countries making the transition from planned to market economies; (ii) his trade policy guideline papers for the World Bank on trade policies for poverty alleviation, uniform tariff policy, adjustment costs of trade liberalization, exchange rate overvaluation, globalization and technology transfer and rules of thumb on regional trade policies; (iii) multilateral, dynamic and environmental issues in trade policy using computable general equilibrium models; (iv) trade policy of the United States in the auto and steel industries; and (v) mathematical methods for modeling. The papers show an unusual combination of policy relevance, advice and impact, with rigor and international trade theory insights.The papers in this volume have appeared in many of the economics profession's more prestigious journals, including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, the Journal of International Economics, International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Comparative Economic, Review of International Economics, World Economy, the Southern Economic Journal, the World Bank Economic Review, the Japanese Economic Review and the Latin American Journal of Economics. In this book, the author elaborates on the articles by discussing some of the policy contexts for the requests for the work from developing and transition countries to the World Bank, the key trade theory or policy insights, policy recommendations and conclusions and the policy impacts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813108431
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/23/2017
Series:	World Scientific Studies In International Economics , #57
Pages:	696
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xiii

1 Introduction and Overview 1

Part 1 Trade Policy Guidelines Papers

2 Rules of Thumb for Trade Policy for Poverty Reduction 53

Constantine Michalopoulos, Maurice Schiff and David G. Tarr in Development, Trade and the WTO: A Handbook, B. Hoekman, A. Mattoo and P. English (eds.), Chapter 51, 519-525. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2002.

3 On the Design of Tariff Policy: A Practical Guide to the Arguments for and Against Uniform Tariff? 61

David G. Tarr in Development, Trade and the WTO: A Handbook, B. Hoekman, A. Mattoo and P. English (eds.), Chapter 52, 526-534. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2002.

4 Adjusting to Trade Policy Reform 77

Steven J. Matusz and David C. Tarr in Economic Policy Reform: The Second Stage, Anne O. Krueger (ed.), Chapter 10, 365-404. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000.

5 Exchange Rate Overvaluation and Trade Protection: Lessons from Experience 115

Howard J. Shatz

David G. Tarr in Development, Trade and the WTO: A Handbook, B. Hoekman, A. Mattoo and P. English (eds.), Chapter 3, 17-23. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2002.

6 International Knowledge Flows and Economic Performance: A Review of the Evidence 129

Giorgio Barba Navaretti and David G. Tarr The World Bank Economic Review, 14(1), 1-15, 2000.

7 Rules of Thumb for Evaluating Preferential Trading Arrangements: Evidence from CGE Assessments 145

Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford and David G. Tarr Cuadernos de Economía (Latin American Journal of Economics), 40(121), 460-468, 2003.

Part 2 Trade Policy in the Transition from Planned to Market Economies

8 Trade and Payments Arrangements fur States of the Former USSR 157

Constantine Michalopoulos and David G. Tarr Studies of Economies in Transformation No. 2, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank Paper, 1992.

9 Trade Performance and Policy in the New Independent States 195

Constantine Michalopoulos and David G. Tarr Directions in Development, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1996.

10 Quantifying Second-Best Effects in Grossly Distorted Markets: The Case of the Butter Market in Poland 225

David G. Tarr Journal of Comparative Economics, 14, 105-119, 1990.

11 The Welfare Costs of Price Controls for Cars and Color Televisions in Poland: Contrasting Estimates of Rent-Seeking from Recent Experience 241

David G. Tarr The World Bank Economic Review, 8(3), 415-443, 1994.

12 The Terms-of-Trade Effects of Moving to World Prices on Countries of the Former Soviet Union 271

David G. Tarr Journal of Comparative Economics, 18, 1-24, 1994.

13 The Terms-of-Trade Effects from the Elimination of State Trading in Soviet-Hungarian Trade 295

Gabor Oblath and David G. Tarr Journal of Comparative Economics, 16, 75-93, 1992.

14 The Merits of Dual Pricing of Russian Natural Gas 315

David G. Tarr and Peter D. Thomson he World Economy, 27(8), 1173-1194. 2004.

15 Russian Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Policy at the Crossroads 337

David G. Tarr and Natalya Volchkova in The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, Michael Alexeev and Shlomo Weber (eds.), Chapter 25, 593-614. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Part 3 Multilateral, Dynamic and Environmental Issues in International Trade Using Computable General Equilibrium Models

16 Quantifying the Uruguay Round

Glenn W. Harrison, Thomas F. Rutherford and David G. Tarr The Economic Journal, 107(September), 1405-1430, 1997. 363

17 Trade Liberalization, Product Variety and Growth in a Small Open Economy: A Quantitative Assessment 389

Thomas F. Rutherford and David G. Tarr Journal of International Economics, 56(2), 247-272, 2002.

18 Regional Trading Arrangements for Chile: Do the Results Differ with a Dynamic Model? 415

Thomas F. Rutherford and David G. Tarr Integration and Trade, 7(18), 117-139, 2003.

19 Trade and Direct Investment in Producer Services and the Domestic Market for Expertise 439

James Markusen, Thomas F. Rutherford and David G. Tarr Canadian Journal of Economics, 38(3), 758-777, 2005.

20 Market Structure and the Environmental Implications of Trade Liberalization: Russia's Accession to the World Trade Organization 459

Christoph Böhringer, Thomas F. Rutherford, David G. Tarr and Natalia Turdyeva Review of International Economics, 23(5), 897-923, 2015.

21 Welfare Costs and Rent Premia When Quotas are not Transferable 487

Jaime de Melo, Alex Pfaff and David G. Tarr European Economic Review, 38, 577-585, 1994.

Part 4 U.S. Trade Policy in Autos and Steel

22 The Costs of the Voluntary Restraint Agreement on Japanese Automobiles 499

David G. Tarr and Morris Morkre in Aggregate Costs to the United States of Tariffs and Quotas on Imports: General Tariff Cuts and Removal of Quotas on Automobiles, Steel, Sugar, and Textiles, Chapter 3, 54-74. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984.

23 Summary and International Trade Policy for Steel 521

David G. Tarr in The United States Steel Industry and its International Rivals: Trends and Factors Determining International Competitiveness, R. Duke, R. Johnson, H. Mueller, P. D. Qualls, C. Roush and D. Tarr (eds.), Chapter 8, 520-573, Bureau of Economics Report to the Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977.

24 Industrial Policy in the Presence of Wage Distortions: The Case of the US Auto and Steel Industries 575

Jaime de Melo and David G. Tarr International Economic Review, 34(4), 833-851, 1993.

25 Effects of Restraining Steel Exports from the Republic of Korea and Other Countries to the United States and the European Economic Community 595

David G. Tarr The World Bank Economic Review, 1(3), 397-418, 1987.

26 Cyclical Dumping: The Case of Steel Products 617

David G. Tarr Journal of International Economics, 9, 57-63, 1979.

Part 5 Mathematical Economic Models

27 Distributed Lags, Morishima Matrices, and the Stability of Economic Models 627

David G. Tarr Econometrica, 44(3), 597-600, 1976.

28 Expectations and Stability with Gross Complements 631

David G. Tarr Review of Economic Studies, 45(3), 617-620, 1978.

29 A Permanent Income Approach to the Growth of Income by Sectors in a Leontief Economy 635

David G. Tarr Quarterly Journal of Economics, 49, 145-150, 1975.

30 Stability in a Cournot Market Characterized by Uncertainty 641

David G. Tarr Western Economic Journal (Economic Inquiry), 10, 330-336, 1972.

31 On the Stability of Oligopoly with Nondogmatic Conjectures 649

David G. Tarr Metroeconomica, 27, 184-190, 1975.

32 The Effects of Adaptive Expectations on the Stability of Price-Adjusting Oligopoly 657

David G. Tarr Southern Economic Journal, 41(4), 673-677, 1975.

33 A Note on the Dominant Diagonal Matrix and Its Extensions 663

David G. Tarr The Economic Studies Quarterly (The Japanese Economic Review), 28(2), 170-175, 1977.

Author Index 669

Subject Index 673