facilitate mutually beneficial cooperation over their trade policy choices. Now heightened geopolitical rivalry seems to have … undermined the WTO. A simple transposition of the previous rationalization suggests that geopolitics and trade cooperation are … other circumstances, there are gains from trade cooperation even with geopolitics. Furthermore, the WTO's relevance is in …

How should economists interpret current trade wars and the recent U.S. trade actions that have initiated them? In this … paper we offer an interpretation of current U.S. trade actions that is at once more charitable and less forgiving than that … countries with which it runs bilateral trade deficits as the most suitable targets of its bargaining tariffs. Less forgiving …