Publications

Forthcoming/Recently Published Papers

• Standing in International Investment and Trade Disputes (with Ralph Ossa and Alan Sykes), Journal of International Economics, August 2023. [Working Paper version: Disputes in International Investment and Trade  Online Appendix] [slides].

• A World Trading System for the Twenty-First Century, December 2022 from The MIT Press in its Ohlin Lecture series. [slides]. [Trade Talks Episode 180]. [Purchase]

• Quantitative Analysis of Multiparty Tariff Negotiations (with Kyle Bagwell and Ali Yurukoglu), Econometrica, July 2021. [slides].

• The Economic Structure of International Trade-in-Services Agreements (with Alan Sykes), Journal of Political Economy, April 2021. Online Appendix [slides].

•  The “New” Economics of Trade Agreements: From Trade Liberalization to Regulatory Convergence? (with Gene Grossman and Phillip McCalman), Econometrica, January 2021. Online Appendix [slides].

• Learning by Ruling and Trade Disputes (with Giovanni Maggi), Journal of International Economics, September 2020. [slides].

• Multilateral Trade Bargaining: A First Look at the GATT Bargaining Records (with Kyle Bagwell and Ali Yurukoglu), American Economic Journal: Applied, July 2020. Online Appendix; Data Appendix [slides].

• Trade Wars: What do they mean? Why are they happening now? What are the costs? (with Aaditya Mattoo), Economic Policy, July 2020. [slides].

• “Nash-in-Nash” Tariff Bargaining (with Kyle Bagwell and Ali Yurukoglu), Journal of International Economics, January 2020. Online Appendix. [working paper version].

• Multilateral Trade Bargaining and Dominant Strategies (with Kyle Bagwell), International Economic Review, November 2018.

• Trade Disputes and Settlement (with Giovanni Maggi), International Economic Review, February 2018. Online Appendix; Online Data Appendix [slides].

• How Important can the Non-Violation Clause be for the GATT/WTO (with Alan Sykes), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2017. [slides].

• The Design of Trade Agreements (with Kyle Bagwell), Chapter 8 in Bagwell and Staiger (eds) Handbook of Commercial Policy, Elsevier, December 2016. Online Appendix.

• Is the WTO Passé? (with Kyle Bagwell and Chad Bown), Journal of Economic Literature, December 2016. [slides].

• Delocation and Trade Agreements in Imperfectly Competitive Markets (with Kyle Bagwell), Research in Economics, June 2015. [slides].

• Optimal Design of Trade Agreements in the Presence of Renegotiation (with Giovanni Maggi), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2015. Online Appendix [slides].

• Non-Violations (with Alan Sykes), Journal of International Economic Law, December 2013.

• Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements (with Pol Antras), American Economic Review, December 2012. Online Appendix [slides].

• Profit Shifting and Trade Agreements in Imperfectly Competitive Markets (with Kyle Bagwell), International Economic Review, November 2012 [slides].

• The Economics of Trade Agreements in the Linear Cournot Delocation Model (with Kyle Bagwell), Journal of International Economics, September 2012.

• Trade Agreements and the Nature of Price Determination (with Pol Antras), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2012 [slides].

• What Do Trade Negotiators Negotiate About? Empirical Evidence from the World Trade Organization (with Kyle Bagwell), American Economic Review, June 2011. Online Appendix; Data Set [slides].

• The Role of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements (with Giovanni Maggi) Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 2011. Online Appendix [slides].

• International Trade, National Treatment and Domestic Regulation (with Alan Sykes), Journal of Legal Studies, January 2011 [slides]

• ‘Currency Manipulation’ and World Trade (with Alan Sykes), World Trade Review, October 2010 [slides].

• Backward Stealing and Forward Manipulation in the WTO (with Kyle Bagwell), Journal of International Economics, September 2010.

• The WTO: Theory and Practice (with Kyle Bagwell), Annual Review of Economics, September 2010.

• Trade Agreements as Endogenously Incomplete Contracts (with Henrik Horn and Giovanni Maggi), American Economic Review, March 2010 [slides].
  

  Selected Earlier Published Papers

• The World Trade Organization New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2^nd Edition, 2008 [slides].

• Auctioning Countermeasures in the WTO (with Kyle Bagwell and Petros C. Mavroidis), Journal of International Economics, November 2007.

• What can Developing Countries Achieve in the WTO? Journal of Economic Literature, June 2006 [slides].

• Will International Rules on Subsidies Disrupt the World Trading System? (with Kyle Bagwell), American Economic Review, June 2006 [slides].

• Multilateral Trade Negotiations, Bilateral Opportunism and the Rules of GATT/WTO (with Kyle Bagwell), Journal of International Economics, December 2005 [slides].

• Enforcement, Private Political Pressure and the GATT/WTO Escape Clause (with Kyle Bagwell), Journal of Legal Studies, June 2005 [slides].

• Protection and the Business Cycle (with Kyle Bagwell), Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, Vol. 3, No.1, Article 3, 2003.

• It’s a Question of Market Access (with Kyle Bagwell and Petros C. Mavroidis), American Journal of International Law, January 2002.

• The WTO as a Mechanism for Securing Market Access Property Rights: Implications for Global Labor and Environmental Issues (with Kyle Bagwell), Journal of Economic Perspectives, summer 2001.

• Strategic Trade, Competitive Industries and Agricultural Trade Disputes (with Kyle Bagwell), Economics and Politics, July 2001.

• Reciprocity, Non-discrimination and Preferential Agreements in the Multilateral Trading System (with Kyle Bagwell), European Journal of Political Economy, June 2001.

• Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty and International Economic Institutions (with Kyle Bagwell), Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2001 [slides].

• An Economic Theory of GATT (with Kyle Bagwell), American Economic Review, March 1999 [slides].

• Do GATT Rules Help Governments make Domestic Commitments? (with Guido Tabellini), Economics and Politics, July 1999.

• Will Preferential Agreements Undermine the Multilateral Trading System? (with Kyle Bagwell), Economic Journal, July 1998.

• Regionalism and Multilateral Tariff Cooperation (with Kyle Bagwell), in John Piggott and Alan Woodland (eds.), International Trade Policy and the Pacific Rim, Macmillan, London, 1998.

• Collusion over the Business Cycle (with Kyle Bagwell), Rand Journal of Economics, Spring 1997.

• Multilateral Tariff Cooperation During the Formation of Free Trade Areas (with Kyle Bagwell), International Economic Review, May 1997.

• Multilateral Tariff Cooperation During the Formation of Customs Unions (with Kyle Bagwell), Journal of International Economics, February 1997.

• International Rules and Institutions for Trade Policy, in Gene M. Grossman and Kenneth Rogoff (eds.), The Handbook of International Economics, vol 3, North Holland, 1995.

• A Theory of Gradual Trade Liberalization in Deardorff, A., Levinsohn, J., and Stern, R. (eds.) New Directions in Trade Theory, University of Michigan Press, 1995.

• Measuring Industry Specific Protection: Antidumping in the United States (with Frank A. Wolak), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Microeconomics, Volume 1, 1994.

• The Sensitivity of Strategic and Corrective R&D Policy in Oligopolistic Industries (with Kyle Bagwell), Journal of International Economics, February 1994.

• Sectoral Shocks and Structural Unemployment (with Michael Riordan), International Economic Review, August 1993.

• The Sensitivity of Strategic and Corrective R&D Policy in Battles for Monopoly (with Kyle Bagwell), International Economic Review, November 1992.

• The Effects of Domestic Antidumping Law in the Presence of Foreign Monopoly (with Frank A. Wolak), Journal of International Economics, May 1992.

• A Theory of Managed Trade (with Kyle Bagwell), American Economic Review, September 1990.

• The Role of Export Subsidies when Product Quality in Unknown (with Kyle Bagwell), Journal of International Economics, August 1989.

• Organized Labor and the Scope of International Specialization, Journal of Political Economy, October 1988.

• An Interpretation of the Factor Content of Trade (with Alan Deardorff), Journal of International Economics, February 1988.

• Discretionary Trade Policy and Excessive Protection (with Guido Tabellini), American Economic Review, December 1987.