Despite the prevalent use of quota restrictions, little experimental work exists on the effect on market performance of quotas. This chapter elaborates on the different types of quota that can exist and how they are applied in the real world. This is then followed by the some experimental...

While most explanations of individual trade policy preferences center on the re-distributional implications of trade, recent research is particularly interested in the role of non-economic determinants. We join the latter line of work by studying the effect of a fundamental socio-psychological...

In this paper, we examine an innovative postal export regime that involves both a streamlining of export procedures and provision of intermediation services to investigate how firms' react to changing trade costs and whether and how these firms learn. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that...

This paper examines individual-level support for trade liberalization, relates it to beliefs about trade, and measures its sensitivity to positive and negative framing. The data come from the 2018 Latinobarometro survey of eighteen countries, in which the authors embedded a survey experiment to...

Canada has an effective trade agreement with all of our significant trading partners in the WTO, but its rules are slow to adapt to the rapidly changing economic realities analyzed in other chapters in this volume. As trade negotiators experiment with alternatives in a G-zero world without a...