Are All Trade Protection Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas

Bruce Blonigen, Benjamin H. Liebman, Justin R. Pierce, Wesley W. Wilson

NBER Working Paper No. 16391
Issued in September 2010

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Blonigen and Wilson were supported by a National Science Foundation grant (Number 0416854). Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. We thank Rob Feenstra, Tom Prusa, Kathryn Russ, Peter Schott, Deborah Swenson and participants of seminars at the U.S. Census Bureau and Rutgers for helpful comments. Any remaining errors are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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