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We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent …
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We consider the design and implementation of international trade agreements when: (i) negotiations are undertaken and …
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International disputes over subsidies are increasingly disrupting the world trading system. The creation of the WTO was … international rules that govern subsidies have received little attention in the form of systematic economic analysis. In this paper … we provide a first formal analysis of the international rules that govern the use of subsidies to domestic production (as …
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We describe recent work on the theory of trade agreements that speaks to the purpose and design of GATT. Our discussion proceeds in three steps. First, we examine the purpose of a trade agreement. In both the traditional economic and the political-economy approaches to the study of trade...
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What does economics have to say about the design of international trade agreements? We review a literature on this …
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stylized facts about these interconnected high-stakes international negotiations. We use detailed product-level offer and …
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economics literature on international trade agreements and argue on this basis that the WTO is not passé. Rather, and subject to …
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membership into the world trading system, the WTO may face a "latecomers" problem that, while occurring also in earlier rounds …
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in an interdependent world? This question is at the center of the debate over the future role of GATT (and its successor …
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Trade negotiations occur through time and between the governments of many countries. An important issue is thus whether the value of concessions that a government wins in a current negotiation may be eroded in a future bilateral negotiation to which it is not party. In the absence of rules that...
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