Free Trade and Protection

Free Trade or Protection: A Literature Review on Trade Barriers

The purpose of this paper is to, firstly explain the reason of international trade according to recent theories; secondly, collect several sorts of opinions about free trade and protectionism referring to relevant literatures; thirdly describe export barriers in different aspects, such as natural barriers and artificial barriers; lastly from trade regulation perspective introduce WTO as a tool ...

Trade Creation and Residual Quota Protection in a Free Trade Area with Domestic Monopoly

Beyond Trade Creation: Free Trade Agreements and Trade Disputes

This paper investigates the effects of the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs) on trade disputes. We construct a unique and comprehensive dataset on inter-country trade disputes from 1995 to 2007. The dataset covers 110 countries and 1130 trade disputes. We find that the incidences of trade disputes between two countries are positively associated with economic size, economic growth, and t...

Trade Protection with Two-Sidedness

The traditional model of trade protection against a foreign monopolist suggests that a home country should often impose a tariff on the foreign firm, even though the this introduces an additional distortion. In this paper, I generalize the traditional model to include a basic network externality, e.g., the foreign firm also generates third party advertisement revenue from its product, and I det...

Free Trade and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: Can We Have One without the Other?

Free Trade and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: Can We Have One Without the Other?* This Paper is concerned with the interaction between trade policies and the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). In particular, it investigates, within the framework of a general equilibrium model with endogenous growth, the welfare implications of an international agreement on one or bo...