We survey the literature on firms as primary actors in trade politics. In contrast with prevailing
approaches, firm-centered models predict that trade internally divides industries and that …

This chapter surveys empirically the broad features of trade policy in goods for 31 major
economies that collectively represented 83% of the world's population and 91% of the …

The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single
country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent …

“TRADE is BAD.” So wrote President Donald Trump on a draft speech he was editing on Air
Force One while returning from a G-20 summit meeting in 2017.1 This statement reflects the …

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge
out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this …

The World Trade Organization (WTO) oversees the negotiation and enforcement of formal
rules governing international trade. Why do countries choose to adjudicate their trade …

The majority of the world's countries have antidumping (AD) statutes in place, hundreds of
AD actions occur annually across these countries, and AD criteria and procedures have …

Major economies such as the United States, European Union, Japan, and even China have
shifted trade negotiating emphasis toward 'mega‐regional'agreements, including the Trans …

Abstract The Bagwell and Staiger (1990) theory of cooperative trade agreements predicts
new tariffs (i) increase with imports,(ii) increase with the inverse of the sum of the import …

It is widely agreed that the EU is a sui generis international organization, but current
scholarship rarely specifies why. This paper identifies the EU as a “self-contained regime”, a …