Measuring the costs of protection in Japan
By: Yoko Sazanami, Shujiro Urata, Hiroki Kawai.
Contributors: Urata, Shūjiro, 1950-; Kawai, Hiroki.; Hufbauer, Gary Clyde.; Institute for International Economics (U.S.)
Publisher: Institute for International Economics
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Protectionism -- Japan.; Non-tariff trade barriers -- Japan.; Competition, Imperfect -- Japan.; Protectionism -- United States.
Description: The authors assess Japanese trade barriers by identifying price differentials between imports and their (imperfect) domestic substitutes and then calculating the welfare effects of the implied trade barriers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-76).
The companion volume to Gary C. Hufbauer and Kimberly Ann Elliott's Measuring the costs of protection in the United States, 1994.