An Extension of the Trade Restrictiveness Index To large Economies

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2006

School

Social Science and Global Studies

Abstract

The Trade Restrictiveness Index (TRI) introduced by Anderson and Neary (1994) provided the first theoretically satisfying measure of a country's tariff structure by overcoming the problem of ad hoc specification of indexing weights and the related index number problem. We observe, however, that the TRI may not exist or may not be unique when countries are large. As a remedy, we propose a simple extension. © 2006 The Authors; Journal compilation © 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Publication Title

Review of International Economics

Volume

14

Issue

4

First Page

678

Last Page

682

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