Over the past fifty years, barriers to international trade have decreased substantially. While the decline in protectionism since World War II has stemmed partly from unilateral changes in trade policy by countries, it also has been a result of agreements among countries to liberalize their...

Internationale Institutionen, die eine Ausstiegsregel beinhalten, erreichen stabilere und dauerhaftere kooperative internationale Regime und sind ex ante leichter zu verwirklichen. Die Ausstiegsregel ist endogen in einem Modell, in dem wiederholt die Handelshemmnisse bestimmt werden, wenn...

International trade agreements can help developing countries attract foreign direct investment. We ask whether differences in the specific provisions included in trade agreements have differential effects on FDI. Can trade agreements with more credible commitments to protect investment induce...

International institutions that include an escape clause generate more durable and stable cooperative international regimes, and are easier to achieve ex ante. The escape clause is endogenous in a model of repeated trade-barrier setting in the presence of symmetric, two-sided, political...

International institutions that include an escape clause generate more durable and stable cooperative international regimes, and are easier to achieve ex ante. The escape clause is endogenous in a model of repeated trade-barrier setting in the presence of symmetric, two-sided, political...