Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/269299 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
FERDI Working Paper No. P19
Publisher: 
Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international (FERDI), Clermont-Ferrand
Abstract: 
This paper provides a new theoretically-derived measure of preference margins at the product level, that takes into account competition across exporters as well as competition with domestic producers on a given market. This indicator is derived for differentiated goods under imperfect competition, in a framework extended from Ottaviano, Tabuchi and Thisse (2002). We compute our theoretically-based preference margin measure for the European Union market access over 5,000 products (HS-6 digits) exported by an exhaustive sample of 222 countries in 2008. This new measure reveals very low preference margins once adjusted for domestic and import competition. We also provide econometric correlations validating the relevance of both our "preferred" preference margin indicator and the theoretical framework used to derive it.
Subjects: 
Tarifs préférentiels
JEL: 
O24
F12
F15
C33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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