Nicita, Alessandro; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri - Institut d'Economie et Econométrie, Université de Genève - 2013
A rationale for cooperation in trade negotiations is the internalization of terms-of-trade externalities. With the help of a simple theoretical framework we show that the textbook prediction that non-cooperative tariffs are positively correlated to the importer’s market power is reversed when...