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A Commitment Theory of Subsidy Agreements
Brou, Daniel - 2012
This paper examines the rationale for the rules on domestic subsidies in international trade agreements through a framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its disposal, taxation can be distortionary and the...
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Contesting an International Trade Agreement
Cole, Matthew T. - 2018
We develop a new theoretical framework of trade agreement (TA) formation, called a ‘parallel contest', that emphasizes the political fight over TA ratification within countries. TA ratification is inherently uncertain in each country, where anti- and pro-trade interest groups contest each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918999
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Antidumping as Strategic Trade Policy Under Asymmetric Information
Matschke, Xenia - 2013
This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where the foreign firm's cost is observed by the domestic firm, but not by the government. To induce truthful revelation, the government can design a tariff schedule, contingent on...
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Trade Imbalances and Multilateral Trade Cooperation
Marchetti, Juan A.; Ruta, Michele; Teh, Robert - 2021
Rising current account and merchandise trade imbalances marked the years before the global financial and economic crisis. These imbalances either contributed to or precipitated the crisis and to the extent that they create systemic risks, it is desirable that they be reduced. There are many...
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Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
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WTO Membership and the Shift to Consumption Taxes
Buettner, Thiess - 2016
implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Employing robust difference-in-difference specifications as well …
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Net Neutrality and Internet Fragmentation : The Role of Online Advertising
D'Annunzio, Anna - 2015
We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …
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How Social Reputation Networks Interact with Competition in Anonymous Online Trading : An Experimental Study
Bolton, Gary E. - 2014
Many Internet markets rely on quot;feedback systemsquot;, essentially social networks of reputation, to facilitate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751561
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Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries
Ornelas, Emanuel - 2016
Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries (SDT) constitutes a central feature of the GATT/WTO system. Its formal goal is to foster export-led growth in developing countries. Its theoretical foundations and empirical support are, however, weak at best. In particular, SDT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994273
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What Explains Sovereign Debt Litigation?
Schumacher, Julian - 2015
We study the occurrence of holdout litigation in the context of sovereign defaults. The number of creditor lawsuits against foreign governments has strongly increased over the past decades, but there is a large variation across crisis events. Why are some defaults followed by a “run to the...
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