Measuring the Costs of Protection in Europe - Softcover

Messerlin, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881322733 ISBN 13: 9780881322736

Publisher: Peterson Inst Int Economics, 2001

Synopsis

Trade protection costs the European Community between 6 and 7 percent of its gross domestic product, or the equivalent of the annual economic output of Spain. Continuing the Institute's series on trade protection in major countries (which already includes the United States, Japan, Korea, and China), this study by Patrick A. Messerlin is the first attempt to measure the impact of all types of protection in the European Union.

Messerlin uses partial equilibrium methods to assess the costs to consumers and to evaluate the political economy of European protection. He also examines in detail the intricate relations between the major EC domestic policies--from the Common Agricultural Policy to the Single Market in services--and EC commercial policy. He aims to assess their dynamic evolution for the decade to come, which will be marked by the first accessions of Central European countries to the EC and by the debate on the European political union. The study provides a valuable agenda for the upcoming round of WTO negotiations and underlines their role as a support for domestic reforms that the EC should undertake for its own benefit.

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About the Author

Patrick Messerlin was a Visiting Fellow and a professor of economics at the the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and Director of the Groupe d'Economic Mondiale de Sciences Po.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peterson Inst Int Economics
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881322733
• ISBN 13: 9780881322736
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432