caa a22 4500 397544901 CHVBK 20180308164736.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199601 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2298117 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.2307/2298117 A New Approach to Evaluating Trade Policy [Elektronische Daten] [James E. Anderson, J. Peter Neary] This paper introduces a new index number, the Trade Restrictiveness Index, which measures the restrictiveness of a system of trade protection. The index is a general equilibrium application of the distance function and answers the question: "What uniform set of trade restrictions is equivalent (in welfare terms) to the initial protective structure?” The index is applicable to both tariffs and quotas and permits international and intertemporal comparisons. The index is operational and we provide two empirical examples to illustrate its applicability and to show its superiority to commonly used measures. © 1996 The Review of Economic Studies Limited Anderson James E. Boston College aut Neary J. Peter University College Dublin aut The Review of Economic Studies Wiley-Blackwell 63/1(1996-01), 107-125 0034-6527 63:1<107 1996 63 restud https://doi.org/10.2307/2298117 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2298117 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Anderson James E. Boston College aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Neary J. Peter University College Dublin aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Review of Economic Studies Wiley-Blackwell 63/1(1996-01), 107-125 0034-6527 63:1<107 1996 63 restud Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 214222195 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford