Will a free trade agreements (FTAs) between nations be politically viable？Under political lobby what incentives … determine whether FTAs will be signed or not? Will FTAs include steadily more countries until we reach worldwide free trade? The … paper addresses these questions using a theoretical analysis model of free trade agreement under imperfect competition, with …

regarding the union’s common trade policy. In the case of the common European external tariff, how governments voted was not …

This study examines the effect of electoral strength on politician's trade policy preferences using data of candidates … the margin of vote affects candidates' trade policy preferences after controlling attributes of candidates and … trade liberalization. This result is robust to the model with the margin of vote as an endogenous variable. …

trade and fiscal policies intended to support the development of the southern regions of Italy, as well as his critical …

of 60-ies. Moderate professional macro-level regulation, slow and gradual setup of market environment as well as an … decades. By now, it is clear that trade liberation had an important role in freeing the economy of Indonesia from the single …-sided economic structure of oil exporting countries, and led to the diversification of its foreign trade at a rapid pace. …

Recent literature on the workhorse model of intra-industry trade has explored heterogeneous cost structures at the firm …-firms specification. We develop a symmetric two-country intra-industry trade model where firms are of two different marginal costs types … trade. However, we find that with heterogeneous fixed export costs there exists a positive bilateral tariff that maximizes …