In the paper the endogenous trade model follows the Grosman and Helpman tradition. The structure of the economy is … characterised by a specific factor trade model and consumers' preferences are quasilinears. …

number of international economic integration agreements, such as free trade agreements. This paper discusses the roles of … that tend to form free trade agreements tend to be closer to each other, more remote from the rest of the world, and larger … bilateral free trade agreements between Israel with Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. …

This paper assesses the major developments in U.S. trade policies since the creation of the WTO in 1995. It is based in … large measure on the fourth biannual (1996) WTO Trade Policy Review of the United States and updated through 1997. The … discussion and assessments include in particular: the major U.S. multilateral trade-policy issues and activities centered in the …

Economic sanctions are not only a foreign policy tool but a form of trade policy. Like other kinds of trade policy …, mobilizes export interests against a trade sanctions policy. Congress's more hawkish preferences on both trade policy and human … leadership and perhaps against the will of the president. These variables color Sino-American trade relations today. …

The lack of progress in the Doha negotiations does not mean that trade policies have remained just as they were at the …

To date, virtually all the equity market literature analyzing the consequences of trade policy changes has assessed … impact of trade negotiations. This paper attempts to work in both these neglected areas by assessing the impact on the value …

This paper is about the interactions between what is traditionally considered trade policy and a narrow but important … aspect of competition policy, namely merger policy. We focus on links between merger policies and trade liberalization … second, we argue that one should not expect to find any particular relationship between trade policy and merger policy. In …

resource depletion, such that sustainable growth will not occur in autarky under certain preferences, and is possible in trade … and free trade reveal that for very high or low world prices of the resource-based good, it is possible for the economy to … gain from trade. However if the price is intermediate, it will instead lose. …