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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...

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Young and Out in Germany : On the Youths' Chances of Labor Market Entrance in Germany

Franz, Wolfgang; Inkmann, Joachim; Pohlmeier, Winfried; … - 2021

This paper deals with the labor market entrance of young people in the Federal Republic" of Germany. The main focus is … on failures during this stage. First, an overview of the youth" labor market in Germany is given. Then, the transition …

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German and American Wage and Price Dynamics : Differences and Common Thenes

Franz, Wolfgang; Gordon, Robert J. - 2021

The evolution of unemployment in West Germany and the U. S. stands in sharp contrast, with German unemployment much … big difference berween the two countries is that there is no feedback from wages to prices in Germany, and so high … unemployment does not put downward pressure on the inflation rate. During the 19705 and 19805 in Germany there emerged a growing …

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The Duration of Youth Unemployment in West Germany : Some Theoretical Considerations

Franz, Wolfgang - 2021

This paper presents a theoretical model dealing with the duration of youth unemployment in West Germany. Duration can …

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The Reservation Wage of Unemployed Persons in the Federal Republic of Germany : Theory and Empirical Tests

Franz, Wolfgang - 2021

This study examines the determinants of the reservation wage of unemployed persons in the Federal Republic of Germany …

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Rules Versus Discretion in Trade Policy : an Empirical Analysis

Staiger, Robert W. - 2011

We test empirically for evidence that government tariff-setting behavior depends on the degree of discretion with which policy-makers are endowed. We do this by studying government tariff choices under two distinct environments. One environment is that of tariffs set under the Escape Clause...

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Delocation and Trade Agreements in Imperfectly Competitive Markets

Bagwell, Kyle - 2010

in the perfectly competitive benchmark case, we show that the principle of reciprocity is efficiency enhancing, as it … results therefore indicate that the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements applies to a broader set of market structures …

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International Trade and Domestic Regulation

Staiger, Robert W. - 2009

Existing formal models of the relationship between trade policy and regulatory policy suggest the potential for a regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations. This paper bridges the gap between the existing formal...

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Breach, Remedies and Dispute Settlement in Trade Agreements

Maggi, Giovanni - 2009

We provide a simple but novel model of trade agreements that highlights the role of transaction costs, renegotiation and dispute settlement. The model allows us to characterize the appropriate remedy for breach and whether the agreement should be structured as a system of "property rights" or...

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The Effect of Domestic Antidumping Law in the Presence of Foreign Monopoly

Staiger, Robert W. - 2007

We consider the effects of antidumping law when utilized by competitive domestic petitioners against a foreign monopolist. The foreign monopolist must set capacity before the realization of random foreign demand, but can reduce the cost of holding excess capacity in periods of slack foreign...

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