bargaining with domestic SIGs can gain by constraining tariffs through international agreements even if this leads to the use of … constraints depends on the government's bargaining power relative to SIGs. Using detailed data, we confirm that tariff constraints …-parametric evidence that the higher the government bargaining power relative to a SIG the more relaxed the tariff constraint it chooses …

This paper studies a two-player alternating offers bargaining model in which one of the agents has the ability to …