This article provides new evidence on the determinants of individual trade-policy preferences using individual-level survey data for the United States. There are two main empirical results. First, we find that factor type dominates industry of employment in explaining support for trade barriers. Second, we find that home ownership also matters for individuals’ trade-policy preferences. Independ...

The inherent tension between trade preferences and the Most-Favoured Nation (MFN) principle has been mainly examined in the context of regional free trade agreements and customs unions. Much less attention has been given to non-reciprocal special trade preferences given by developed countries to developing countries. WTO rules on these special preferences are less explicit than WTO rules govern...

Abstract Integrating the Global Preference Survey (GPS) and its data of unique scope on national preference structures in patience, risk attitude reciprocity into a gravity framework, this paper is first to explore potential influence international trade outcomes economic social preferences unified setting. Adding evidence preferences’ importance for aggregate outcomes, authors find marked diff...

Asymmetric capacities across nations are a persistent reality in the global economy, but little is known about how people respond to these disparities. We provide first experimental evidence on phenomenon of asymmetrical fairness trade preferences. find that opinion divides over relative economic capacity partner: Citizens treat smaller and less developed economies very differently trade, even ...

We use detailed trade, tariff, and income data for countries involved in 91 trade agreements negotiated since 1980 to test for reciprocity in free trade agreements. The results offer strong evidence of reciprocity in North-North and South-South free trade agreements, but there is little empirical support for reciprocity in North-South trade agreements. In particular, after controlling for other...

Do the World Trade Organization and the Generalized System of Preferences foster bilateral trade? World trade has grown exponentially during the last 60 years. Admittedly, it is not clear if this development can be assigned to international trade agreements like the World Trade Organization or the Generalized System of Preferences as previous empirical studies found contradicting results. In th...