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Networks of Free Trade Agreements Among Heterogeneous Countries
Mauleon, Ana; Song, Huasheng; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - 2006
The paper examines the formation of free trade agreements as a network formation game. We consider a three-country model in which international trade occurs between economies with imperfectly competitive product markets. Labor markets can be unionized and non-unionized in each country. We show...
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Formation of climate coalitions and preferential free trade : the case for participation linkage
Kuhn, Thomas; Pestow, Radomir; Zenker, Anja - 2022
-stage strategic trade and participation game, coalition and fringe countries dispose of a discriminatory tariff on dirty imports as … well as emission permits imposed on domestic producers and traded on a common permit market inside the coalition, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435665
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Building climate coalitions on preferential free trade agreements
Kuhn, Thomas; Pestow, Radomir; Zenker, Anja - 2017
-linkage literature. In particular, we propose a preferential free trade agreement on which a climate coalition should be built. The basic … idea is that the benefits of free trade provide strong incentives for free riders to join the coalition. As a framework, a … heart of our approach are the trade privileges granted to coalition members shifting the terms of trade favourably without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776985
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Trade-Diverting Free Trade Agreements, External Tariffs, and Feasibility
Karacaovali, Baybars - 2013
There has been a proliferation of preferential trade agreements within the last two decades. This paper analyzes the effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) on external tariffs in small economies where protection decisions are made politically. It extends the Grossman and Helpman (1995) model by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071326
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Free Trade Agreements and External Tariffs
Karacaovali, Baybars - 2010
There has been a proliferation of preferential trade agreements within the last two decades. In this paper I analyze the effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) on external tariffs under a political economy setup. I extend the Grossman and Helpman (1995) model by determining tariff rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144598
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The role of side payment requirements in free trade negotiations under asymmetric information
Yamamoto, Katsuzo - In: Journal of international trade & economic development : … 31 (2022) 3, pp. 321-339
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Who disapproves of TTIP? : multiple distrust in companies and political institutions
Pitlik, Hans - 2016 - This version: Thursday, 03 March 2016
In 2013, the European Union and United States initiated a new political dialogue regarding a further deepening of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495139
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The noodle bowl effect : stumbling or building block?
Kang, Jong Woo - 2015
Although it is well-known that a global trade regime best ensures economic welfare, there has nevertheless been a proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) between individual countries. This poses the challenge known as the "noodle bowl effect" - stemming from different rules of origins and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317820
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The Expressive Free Trade Agreement
A, Ashley H. - 2014
In the international investment context, this paper focuses on the expressive power of the FTAs or BITs; expression of them may impact the players in the games. First, the paper examines the boost of the BITs and FTAs. The main focus is to test the application of game theory to the FTAs or BITs;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065936
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Free Trade Networks
Furusawa, Taiji; Konishi, Hideo - 2003
The paper examines the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs) as a network formation game. We consider a general n-country model in which countries trade differentiated industrial commodities as well as a numeraire good. Countries may be different in the size of the industrial good industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325086