Measuring the Impacts of Global Trade Reform with Optimal Aggregators of Distortions

Traditional weighted-average measures of trade distortions are widely used in analyzing global and regional reforms, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple countries...

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Main Authors: Laborde, David, Martin, Will, van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
GDP
WTO
Online Access:http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110518163857
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3428