Are lending contracts between international financial institutions (IFIs) and sovereign borrowers optimal? To address this question this paper builds on two ideas. First, the prospect of future debt relief can make it profitable for an IFI to continue lending even if lending contracts are...

Abstract This paper considers a signaling game in which the non-duty effects of antidumping petition influence filing motivations behind the domestic firm’s filing strategies. In this game, “abusive†antidumping occurs when the domestic firm files petitions strategically so as...