IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pid/journl/v14y1975i2p155-173.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Empirical Problems of ·Effective Rates of Protection .An Evaluation of Past Experience

Author

Listed:
  • KURT v. RABENAU

    (University, West Germany.)

Abstract

During the last 10 years a number of articles have been publisheJ on the concept of effective protection. Most ot them were concerned with theoretical aspects of effective rates of protection (ERPs) in the usual neoclassical framework. Therefore, practitioners had little help from this literature when they wanted to use the basic ERP formula on a more complex world and with limited data supply. The insufficient discussion on ·the empirical problems might be the main reason. explaining' why the results of actual ca~lations of ERPs are hardly comparahle. Anyway, in nearly every empirical investigation that I know of, a different formula has been used [see 1,2,3,5,6,12,14,16,17 and 23]. Because the concept of effectivc protection has in the meantime been established as a major tool for analyzing the resource allocation of primary factors between industries and the resource costs of producing one unit of domestic currency if output and inputs are'valued at free trade prices it would be worth-while to discuss the major empirical problems of ERPs in order to bring about comparability ·between future results.

Suggested Citation

  • KURT v. RABENAU, 1975. "Empirical Problems of ·Effective Rates of Protection .An Evaluation of Past Experience," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 14(2), pages 155-173.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:14:y:1975:i:2:p:155-173
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.pide.org.pk/pdf/PDR/1975/Volume2/155-173.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:14:y:1975:i:2:p:155-173. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Khurram Iqbal (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/pideipk.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.