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Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Bilateral Opportunism and the Rules of GATT

Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021

Trade negotiations occur through time and between the governments of many countries. An important issue is thus whether the value of concessions that a government wins in a current negotiation may be eroded in a future bilateral negotiation to which it is not party. In the absence of rules that...

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Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty and International Economic Institutions

Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021

in an interdependent world? This question is at the center of the debate over the future role of GATT (and its successor …

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The Power of Asking : How Communication Affects Selfishness, Empathy, and Altruism

Andreoni, James - 2010

communication between subjects. In reality, however, altruism usually requires interaction between givers and receivers, which … altruism are built on human sociality. We experimentally examine communication in which one subject allocates $10 between … recipients had been able to ask, even when they were silent. We conclude that communication dramatically influences altruistic …

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Bayesian Persuasion

Kamenica, Emir - 2009

When is it possible for one person to persuade another to change her action? We take a mechanism design approach to this question. Taking preferences and initial beliefs as given, we introduce the notion of a persuasion mechanism: a game between Sender and Receiver defined by an information...

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Learning by Ruling and Trade Disputes

Maggi, Giovanni - 2017

Over the WTO years, the frequency of disputes and court rulings has trended downwards. Such trends are sometimes interpreted as symptoms of a dispute resolution system in decline. In this paper we propose a theory that can explain these trends as a result of judicial learning; thus according to...

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Gatt-Think

Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2021

We describe recent work on the theory of trade agreements that speaks to the purpose and design of GATT. Our discussion proceeds in three steps. First, we examine the purpose of a trade agreement. In both the traditional economic and the political-economy approaches to the study of trade...

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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore

Whalley, John - 2021

This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the …

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Protection Reduction and Diversion : Ptas and the Incidence of Antidumping Disputes

Prusa, Thomas J. - 2010

We analyze whether preferential trade agreements (PTAs) affect the incidence and pattern of antidumping (AD) filings. We estimate AD provisions in PTAs have decreased the incidence of intra-PTA AD cases by 33-55% and have increased the number of AD actions against non-PTA members by 10-30%. The...

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What Role for Trade in a Post 2012 Global Climate Policy Regime

Whalley, John - 2011

This paper discusses the role that trade can potentially play in both negotiating and operating a post Kyoto/post 2012 global climate policy regime. As an addition to the bargaining set for a global climate negotiation, trade in principle widens the range of jointly beneficial potential outcomes...

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The WTO Government Procurement Agreement and its Impacts on Trade

Chen, Hejing - 2011

This paper assesses the impacts of the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) on trade in both goods and services among members using a gravity model applied to a panel dataset covering 20 OECD countries over the period 1996-2008 for trade in goods and 1999-2008 for trade in services. The...

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