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negotiations, comparing developed-developing country bargaining only on trade policy with joint bargaining on both trade and …
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national state based on the political agenda effect. State centralization induces citizens of different backgrounds, interests … investments in conflict capacity. In the absence of state centralization, citizens do not necessarily band together because of … social democratic party may sometimes induce state centralization (by removing the commitment value of a non …
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Motivated by the structure of WTO negotiations, we analyze a bargaining environment in which negotiations proceed …
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This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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This paper reviews the literature on governments' motivations for negotiating and joining international trade agreements. I discuss both normative explanations for trade agreements and explanations based on political-economy concerns. Most of the paper focuses on the purpose of multilateral...
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This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the … negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market opening with the threat of unilateral trade sanctions (such as Section 301 … areas where U.S. domestic interests are homogeneous and concentrated. Even in the case of tariff negotiations where any …
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In this paper we consider a home government with political pressure to restrict trade, at the expense of foreigners. The foreign country is compensated with an income transfer, which can be thought of as a portion of the tariff revenues or quota rents. In this setting the two countries should...
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fundamentals but also of political variables at the time of congressional negotiations - some of them random realizations of mixed …
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Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the agreements concluded in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (GATT), and …
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Three questions lie at the core of the large and distinguished literature on the political economy of trade policy. First, why is international trade not free? Second, why are trade policies universally biased against (rather than in favor of) trade? Third, what are the determinants of the...
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