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Title: Do Exporters Gain From VERs?

Author(s): Jaime de Melo and L. Alan Winters

Publication Date: March 1990

Keyword(s): Export Restraints, Exports, Manufacturing and Taiwan

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: Previous literature has concentrated on the rent transfer accruing to exporting countries when a VER is binding. This paper studies the efficiency and distributional effects arising when VERs force factors out of industries in which they are most productive. A theoretical model of the industry under the VER is developed to establish qualitative conditions under which a VER will result in: spillovers of exports to unrestricted markets; industry contraction; and loss in national welfare. Key parameters of demand and supply are estimated for leather footwear exports from Taiwan subject to the USA Orderly Marketing Agreement, and their implications explored in a calibrated simulation exercise.

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de Melo, J and Winters, L. 1990. 'Do Exporters Gain From VERs?'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=383