Blaas, Wolfgang et Joachim Becker (dir.), Strategic Arena Switching in International Trade Negotiations, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, 287 p.

May 2007 Firms in International Trade Andrew

Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences present a challenge to standard trade models and shows how recent “heterogeneous-firm” models of int...

Unequal Exchange: Developing Countries in the International Trade Negotiations

A strategic negotiations model with applications to an international crisis

The area of automated negotiation has been of particular interest in AI due to the important role negotiations play in facilitating understanding and the achievement of cooperation among entities with diiering interests, whether they be individuals, organizations, governments, or automated agents. This paper presents a strategic model for negotiation of alternative ooers, with speciic applicati...

Food Fights and Free Trade: International institutions and domestic politics in agriculture trade negotiations

Note: This paper is preliminary work for my dissertation. In this paper I set out the framework of my argument giving hypotheses and describing independent variables and expectations for evidence which would confirm or deny my theory. I give a brief discussion of some results from one part of the quantitative section for US-Japan negotiations. In the coming months I will be adding further data ...

International Technology Diffusion WOLFGANG

752 1 University of Texas, Austin; NBER and CEPR. I have benefited from discussions related to this paper with Bob Baldwin, Elhanan Helpman, Danny Quah, Andres Rodriguez-Claré, Dani Rodrik, Jim Tybout, and Stephen Yeaple. Oded Galor, Peter Howitt, Sam Kortum, Pete Klenow, Pierre Mohnen, Jim Rauch, Carol Shiue, Dan Trefler, and seminar participants at Industry Canada, three anonymous referees an...