Quota licenses for imported capital equipment: Could bureaucrats ever do better than the market?

Journal of International Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-27

  Spencer, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capital good imports; Import licensing; Import restrictions and economic development; Marketable quota licenses; Non transferable licenses; Quota rents

Indexed keywords

QUOTA SYSTEM;

EID: 0031403294     PISSN: 00221996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1996(96)01457-2     Document Type: Article

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