This paper analyzes how international side-payments can be used to facilitate international trade negotiations. The authors present a model where many countries trade many goods and they calculate, by use of the Shapley value, international income transfers that will induce nations to eliminate...

All countries would agree to immediate global free trade if countries were compensated for any terms-of-trade losses with transfers from countries whose terms-of-trade improve, and if customs unions were required to have no effects on non-member countries. Global free trade with transfers is in...

This paper calculates international income transfers which implement a Pareto optimal trade equilibrium in a world where many countries trade many goods.

This book presents an authoritative collection of the most important papers previously published by leading scholars in the field of trade policy and its reform. Included are sections on early contributions to the theory of reform, world welfare and trade reform, and reform with quotas and tariffs.

Trade liberalization has had a major impact on the world economy. As nations continue to engage in preferential trade and with the launching of the first World Trade Organization multilateral round, the need to understand the consequences of trade liberalization has never been greater.

This paper presents a general equilibrium technique for the problem of ranking policies of a nation that trades with a foreign monopoly firm by presenting a generalization of the offer curve. The paper demonstrates the existence of a partial welfare ranking between ad valorem rates and specific...

This paper presents a formal analysis of how global welfare is affected by changing tariff and subsidy rates. The discussion stresses three types of reform whereby, surprisingly, trade liberalization has the potential to reduce world welfare: a multilateral equi-proportionate reduction of...

This paper proposes that Viner's celebrated trade diversion and trade creation terminology for the customs union problem be abandoned. As the alternative is offered a welfare calculus based upon the terms-of-trade and volume-of-trade taxonomy from the theory of tariffs. The paper discusses, by...