Political economy of tariff unification: the case of Russia
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When designing a trade policy reform, government of a transition country faces the problem of minimizing both trade distortions and losses in tariff revenues. One possible solution of this problem is tariff unification, which undermines stimuli for tariff evasion and thus saves budget revenues. We use Grossman-Helpman (1994) model of tariff formation extended for the case of asymmetric information to analyze a political economy basis of tariff unification in Russia (2000-2001) and prospects of further tariff unification during the WTO accession process.Download Info
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Paper provided by EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS in its series EERC Working Paper Series with number 04-12e.Length:
Date of creation: 05 Oct 2004
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Handle: RePEc:eer:wpalle:04-12e
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Keywords: Russia; political economy; endogenous protection theory; tariff regulation; policy formation in transition economy; trade policy;Find related papers by JEL classification:
- F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
- F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
- P26 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Systems and Transition Economies - - - Political Economy
- P33 - Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - International Trade, Finance, Investment, Business, and Aid
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:
- NEP-ALL-2004-12-12 (All new papers)
- NEP-CIS-2004-12-12 (Confederation of Independent States)
- NEP-POL-2004-12-12 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2004-12-12 (Transition Economics)
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