Barriers

(noun)

A structure that bars passage; an obstacle or impediment; a boundary or limit.

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Examples of Barriers in the following topics:

  • Barrier Islands

  • Entry Barriers

    • One important source of oligopoly power are barriers to entry: obstacles that make it difficult to enter a given market.
    • One important source of oligopoly power is barriers to entry.
    • Barriers to entry are obstacles that make it difficult to enter a given market.
    • Additional sources of barriers to entry often result from government regulation favoring existing firms.
    • Explain the necessity of entry barriers for the existence of an oligopoly

  • Economics

    • Trade barriers are government-induced restrictions on international trade.
    • Man-made trade barriers come in several forms, including:
    • Trade barriers are often criticized for the effect they have on the developing world.
    • International trade barriers can take many forms for any number of reasons.
    • Explain the different types of trade barriers and their economic effect

  • Promoting Free Trade

    • Government can promote free trade by reducing tariffs, quotas, and non-tariff barriers.
    • In addition to tariffs and quotas, there are a number of other barriers to free trade that countries use.
    • Broadly, they are categorized as non-tariff barriers (NTBs).
    • NTBs act just like tariffs and quotas in that they are barriers to free trade.
    • Describe the effects of free trade and trade barriers on long run growth

  • The Argument Against Barriers

    • Economists generally agree that trade barriers are detrimental and decrease overall economic efficiency.
    • Most trade barriers work on the same principle: the imposition of some sort of cost on trade that raises the price of the traded products.
    • If two or more nations repeatedly use trade barriers against each other, then a trade war results
    • Trade barriers are often criticized for the effect they have on the developing world.
    • Therefore, the ultimate economic cost of the trade barrier is not a transfer of well-being between sectors, but a permanent net loss to the whole economy arising from the barriers distortion toward the less efficient the use of the economy's scarce resources.

  • Other Barriers

    • Barriers to trade include specific limitations to trade, customs procedures, governmental participation, and technical barriers to trade.
    • In addition to tariffs and quotas, other barriers to trade exist.
    • This category of trade barriers stems from regulations on international trade.
    • This category of trade barriers represents direct governmental involvement in international trade.
    • Technical barriers to trade are non-tariff barriers to trade that refer to standards implemented by countries.

  • The Nature of Effective Communication

    • Physical barriers like distance, inferior technology, or staff shortages that reduce information processing capacity.
    • Attitudinal barriers presented by individuals.
    • Physiological barriers like ill health, poor eyesight, or hearing difficulties.
    • Communications have to take the potential barriers of an audience into account and tailor the message to reach them.
    • Define effective communication in the context of organizational challenges and barriers

  • Technological Barriers

    • Standards-related trade measures, known in WTO parlance as technical barriers to trade play a critical role in shaping global trade.
    • As tariff barriers to industrial and agricultural trade have fallen, standards-related measures of this kind have emerged as a key concern.
    • But when standards-related measures are outdated, overly burdensome, discriminatory, or otherwise inappropriate, these measures can reduce competition, stifle innovation, and create unnecessary technical barriers to trade.
    • These standards-related trade measures, known in World Trade Organization (WTO) parlance as "technical barriers to trade," play a critical role in shaping the flow of global trade.
    • But standards-related measures that are non-transparent, discriminatory, or otherwise unwarranted can act as significant barriers to U.S. trade.

  • Entry and Exit of Firms

    • In perfectly competitive markets, there are no barriers to entry or exit.
    • However, in most other types of markets barriers do exist.
    • Monopolies are often aided by barriers to entry.
    • Examples of barriers to entry include:
    • The factors that may form a barrier to exit include:

  • Physical and Chemical Barriers

    • The innate immune response has physical and chemical barriers that exist as the first line of defense against infectious pathogens.
    • Before any immune factors are triggered, the skin (also known as the epithelial surface) functions as a continuous, impassable barrier to potentially-infectious pathogens .
    • The skin is considered the first defense of the innate immune system; it is the first of the nonspecific barrier defenses.
    • Some pathogens have evolved specific mechanisms that allow them to overcome physical and chemical barriers.
    • Once inside, the body still has many other defenses, including chemical barriers.