This paper investigates the impact of regional free-trade-area (FTA) agreements on the ability of countries to multilaterally cooperate within an economic environment characterized by trade- flow volatility. We show that the parallel formation of different FTAs leads to a gradual but permanent...

We investigate the implications of consumer nationalism for multilateral trade cooperation. We develop a two-country, two-firm model, in which the firms produce horizontally differentiated products and act as Bertrand competitors. Assuming that there is asymmetry in consumer nationalism between...

This paper examines the determinants of “echoing” in antidumping (AD) cases (i.e., different countries sequentially imposing AD measures on the same product from the same exporter). We develop a dynamic game in which two competing importers can choose to impose an AD duty on a third...