Tariffs, entry regulation and markups: Country size matters

Contributions to Macroeconomics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Hoekman, Bernard ^a   Kee, Hiau Looi ^b   Olarreaga, Marcelo ^a  

^a World Bank and CEPR

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Country size; Entry regulation; Industry markup; Tariffs

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944374916     PISSN: 15346005     EISSN: 15346005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-6005.1260     Document Type: Article

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