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Organized Labor and the Scope of International Specialization

Staiger, Robert W. - 1988

This paper examines the interaction between union wages and the international pattern of production and trade. If union goods are heterogeneous in labor intensity, the introduction of an active union in the domestic country causes only the least labor-intensive range of union goods to be...

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Enforcement, Private Political Pressure and the GATT/WTO Escape Clause

Bagwell, Kyle - 2004

We consider the design and implementation of international trade agreements when: (i) negotiations are undertaken and commitments made in the presence of uncertainty about future political pressures; (ii) governments possess private information about political pressures at the time that the...

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Regionalism and Multilateral Tariff Cooperation

Bagwell, Kyle - 1997

We consider a 3 country world in which each country's import market is served by competing exporters from its 2 trading partners. We assume that weak multilateral enforcement mechanisms prevent governments from implementing efficient trade policies through a multilateral agreement requiring...

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Private Cost Information and the Multinational Enterprise

Bagwell, Kyle - 1988

This paper explores the informational role of plant location decisions for the multinational enterprise. When information about costs is incomplete, the location of a plant will be chosen not only for its impact on actual production costs, but also for Its impact on the perception of costs as...

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Disputes in International Investment and Trade

Ossa, Ralph - 2020

International investment agreements employ dispute settlement procedures that differ markedly from their counterparts in trade agreements along three key dimensions: standing (i.e., the right to file grievances), the nature of the remedy, and the remedial period. In the state-to-state dispute...

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Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes

Bagwell, Kyle - 2000

The primary predictions of strategic-trade theory are not restricted to imperfectly-competitive markets. Indeed, these … predictions emerge in a natural three-country extension of the traditional theory of trade policy in competitive markets, once the … theory is augmented to allow for politically-motivated governments, so that the sign of export policy may be converted from …

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International Trade and Domestic Regulation

Staiger, Robert W. - 2009

Existing formal models of the relationship between trade policy and regulatory policy suggest the potential for a regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations. This paper bridges the gap between the existing formal...

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Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements

Maggi, Giovanni - 2009

We provide a simple but novel model of trade agreements that highlights the role of transaction costs, renegotiation and dispute settlement. The model allows us to characterize the appropriate remedy for breach and whether the agreement should be structured as a system of "property rights" or...

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Delocation and Trade Agreements in Imperfectly Competitive Markets

Bagwell, Kyle - 2009

results therefore indicate that the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements applies to a broader set of market structures …

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Profit Shifting and Trade Agreements in Imperfectly Competitive Markets

Bagwell, Kyle - 2009

When markets are imperfectly competitive, trade policies can alter the terms of trade, shift profits from one country to another, and moderate or exacerbate existing distortions that are associated with the presence of monopoly power. In light of the various ways in which trade policies may...

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