Beschreibung
Tariff Rate Quotas are an important, though controversial instrument of international agricultural trade policy. They are meant to provide market access, but can be designed to be as restrictive as import quotas. In the political and academic discussion, quota administration is blamed to cause extra inefficiencies. However, little research exists on how different methods of quota administration compare to each other. This question is approached by an econometric model for censored panel data, which was applied to the EU’s tariff rate quotas. Furthermore, this work analyses how tariff rate quotas are governed by WTO rules, how they are applied in practice by the EU and US, and how they could be reformed in the ongoing agricultural trade negotiations.
Autorenportrait
The Author: Christina Mönnich studied economics at the University of Göttingen. She began her graduate studies at the University of California, San Diego, during an exchange year. She continued and finished her Ph.D. at the Zentrum für internationale Entwicklungs- und Umweltforschung of the University of Gießen.
