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Size Inequality, Coordination Externalities and International Trade Agreements

Saggi, Kamal; Limao, Nuno - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2011

Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of both world trade and two thirds of the membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally extract and enforce trade concessions from larger...

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Size Inequality, Coordination Externalities and International Trade Agreements

Limão, Nuno; Saggi, Kamal - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2013

Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of world trade and two thirds of the membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally extract and enforce trade concessions from larger developed...

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Size inequality, coordination externalities and international trade agreements

Limão, Nuno; Saggi, Kamal - In: European Economic Review 63 (2013) C, pp. 10-27

Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of world trade and two-thirds of the membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally extract and enforce trade concessions from larger developed...

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Optimal tariffs of preferential trade agreements and the tariff complementarity effect

Saggi, Kamal; Yildiz, Halis Murat - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 2 (2009) 1, pp. 5-17

customs unions (CUs) on member and non-member countries when tariffs of both members and non-members are endogenously … to lower tariffs on non-members relative to that under most favored nation (MFN). Design/methodology/approach – The paper … gain, their external tariff needs to be greater than this threshold but smaller than twice their MFN tariffs. Outside this …

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Intellectual Property Provisions in North-South Trade Agreements

Hoekman, Bernard; Saggi, Kamal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using a repeated game approach, this paper models a North-South trade agreement under which North offers South improved market access (via a tariff reduction) if South agrees to prevent local imitation by strengthening its protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs). We show that such an...

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Tariff Discrimination versus MFN under Incomplete Information

Ozerturk, Saltuk; Saggi, Kamal - In: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 14 (2005) 2, pp. 197-208

Does the presence of incomplete information affect a country's incentive to discriminate across exporters with different costs? If so, how? From a global perspective, does the presence of incomplete information weaken or strengthen the case for MFN? We examine these questions in a model of...

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Tariff Retaliation versus Financial Compensation in the Enforcement of International Trade Agreements

Limão, Nuno; Saggi, Kamal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Organization that permits member countries to impose retaliatory tariffs in response to trade violations committed by other members …. We show that monetary fines are more efficient than tariffs in terms of granting compensation to injured parties when … violating country. If fines must ultimately be supported by the threat of retaliatory tariffs, they fail to yield a more …

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The Role of Non-Discrimination in a World of Discriminatory Preferential Trade Agreements

Saggi, Kamal; Wong, Woan Foong; Yildiz, Halis Murat - 2020

reduces the potency of a country's optimal tariffs and therefore its incentive for unilaterally opting out of trade …

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Trading market access for competition policy enforcement

Saggi, Kamal - 2004

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The role of non-discrimination in a world of discriminatory preferential trade agreements

Saggi, Kamal; Wong, Woan Foong; Yildiz, Halis Murat - 2020

reduces the potency of a country’s optimal tariffs and therefore its incentive for unilaterally opting out of trade …

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