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Maximum-revenue tariffs versus free trade

Collie, David R. - 2018

Welfare with the maximum-revenue tariff is compared to free-trade welfare under perfect competition in the case of a large country able to affect its terms of trade; under Cournot duopoly with differentiated products; and under Bertrand duopoly with differentiated products. Under perfect...

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Five essays on international trade, factor flows, and the gains from globalization

Heiland, Inga - 2017

This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...

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The principle of reciprocity in the 21st century

DeRemer, David R. - 2016

The principle of reciprocity is central to trade cooperation. Economic theory characterizes reciprocal policy changes … that guide nations from noncooperative policies to the Pareto efficiency frontier. This paper extends the theory of … matter. We derive the new predicted outcome and explore its relevance for existing theory and empirics of trade cooperation …

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Digital Trade Agreements and Domestic Policy

Institute, Cato; Lester, Simon - 2021

National debates over policies that affect the flow of digital information are heating up as censorship, surveillance, control over personal data, and requirements to store data locally have emerged as contentious political issues. In the coming years, governments will need to carefully craft...

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International Trade and Investment Law : Multilateral, Regional and Bilateral Governance

Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2010

This timely book examines international trade and investment law at various levels of governance, including unilateral, bilateral, regional, and multilateral arrangements. The author demonstrates that the nature of international trade law is fragmented and cyclical. Whilst not always...

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Neither Here Nor There - Countries that are Neither Developing Nor Developed in the WTO : Geographic Differentiation as Applied to Russia and the WTO

Picker, Colin B. - 2015

There are countries that do not fall under the prevailing definitions of developed and developing country that are employed by the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO fails to take into account the special circumstances and needs of these countries. While such special circumstances and needs...

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Opportunities for Cooperation in Removing Prohibitive Trade Barriers

DeRemer, David - 2017

individual government preferences but not joint government preferences, so that a trade agreement would be valuable. Theory can …

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Import liberalization as export destruction? : evidence from the United States

Breinlich, Holger; Leromain, Elsa; Novy, Dennis; … - 2022

How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can reduce industry-level exports by cutting domestic production. We show that this export destruction mechanism reduced US export growth following the permanent normalization of...

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Preferential trade liberalization with endogenous cartel discipline : implications for welfare and optimal trade policies

Agnosteva, Delina; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yotov, Yoto - 2020

We consider an international cartel whose members interact repeatedly in their own as well as in third-country segmented markets. Cartel discipline-an inverse measure of the degree of competition between firms-is endogenously determined by the cartel’s incentive compatibility constraint (ICC),...

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Globalization and trade : an unfortunate tangle

Burnete, Sorin - In: Expert journal of economics 7 (2019) 2, pp. 75-82

well as to its ubiquitously-accepted rules. For better and for worse the system has worked according to traditional theory …

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