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Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014 - Manuscript date: 19 December 2014

Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical … tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments affect this probability. We estimate our model using a database of … results show that WTO commitments significantly reduce the probability of a tariff increase, even when the bound tariff is …

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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO

Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014

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To commit or not to commit? : an experimental investigation of pre-commitments in bargaining situations with asymmetric information

Hoffmann, Sönke; Mihm, Benedikt; Weimann, Joachim - 2014

In a recent paper Konrad and Thum (2014) present a model that shows that unilateral pre-commitment reduces the likelihood of agreement in bilateral negotiations over the provision of a public good when parties have private information over their contribution costs. We test the model in a...

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Collusion in markets characterized by one large buyer : lessons learned from an antitrust case in Russia

Šastitko, Andrej E.; Golovanova, Svetlana V. - 2014

This paper demonstrates that even established and verified facts of agreements among producers are not a sufficient condition for cartel identification and, as a consequence, prosecution of agreement participants. Such requires looking at institutional details and the wider context of these and...

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