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Trade Policy and Economic Growth : a Skeptic'S Guide to Cross-National Evidence
Rodriguez, Francisco; Rodrik, Dani - 2021
Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229058
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Multilateral Trade Bargaining : a First Look at the GATT Bargaining Records
Bagwell, Kyle - 2015
This paper empirically examines recently declassified data from the GATT/WTO on tariff bargaining. We document eight …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017081
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Gatt-Think
Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021
We describe recent work on the theory of trade agreements that speaks to the purpose and design of GATT. Our discussion proceeds in three steps. First, we examine the purpose of a trade agreement. In both the traditional economic and the political-economy approaches to the study of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227740
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Taking Trade Policy Seriously : Export Subsidization as a Case Study in Policy Effectiveness
Rodrik, Dani - 2021
differ across countries and issue areas. Case studies of export subsidization in Korea, Brazil, Turkey, India, Kenya, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222055
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An Economic Theory of GATT
Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021
Despite the important roel played by GATT in the world economy, economist have nto developed a unified theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219697
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Why is Trade Reform so Unpopular? on Status Quo Bias in Policy Reforms
Fernández, Raquel; Rodrik, Dani - 2021
Despite the well-known gains from trade, trade liberalization is politically one of the most contentious actions that a government can take. We propose and formalize a new argument, having to do with uncertainty, which is complementary to the usual explanations for why that is the case; many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224337
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Strategic Export Subsidies and Reciprocal Trade Agreements : The Natural Monopoly Case
Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021
export subsidies can be given a world-wide efficiency rationale. In this paper, we offer one such treatment in the context of … export subsidy programs can lead to inefficiencies, and importing countries and the world as a whole can be better off when …Why do governments seek restrictions on the use of export subsidies through reciprocal trade agreements such as GATT …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013237015
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Reciprocity, Non-Discrimination and Preferential Agreements in the Multilateral Trading System
Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021
GATT and its successor, the WTO. We show that GATT's principle of reciprocity serves to neutralize the world-price effects … provided that the externa- lities associated with trade intervention travel through world prices. We then establish that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239353
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The Simple Economics of Labor Standards and the GATT
Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021
How should the issue of domestic labor standards be handled in the GATT/ WTO? This question is part of a broader debate … trading partner is then free to issue a tariff response to stabilize export prices. We show that both approaches deliver govts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219181
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Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Bilateral Opportunism and the Rules of GATT
Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021
Trade negotiations occur through time and between the governments of many countries. An important issue is thus whether the value of concessions that a government wins in a current negotiation may be eroded in a future bilateral negotiation to which it is not party. In the absence of rules that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230972