Preferential Trade Agreements: A Law And Economics Analysis - Softcover

Bagwell, Kyle W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107459354 ISBN 13: 9781107459359

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This volume assembles a stellar group of scholars and experts to examine preferential trade agreements (PTAs), a topic that has time and again attracted the interest of analysts. It presents a discussion of the evolving economic analysis regarding PTAs and the various dysfunctions that continually place them among the priority items for (re)negotiation by the WTO. The book explores recent empirical research that casts doubt on the old 'trade diversion' school and debates why the WTO should deal with PTAs and if PTAs belong under the mandate of the WTO as we now know it.

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Book Description:

This volume assembles a group of experts to examine preferential trade agreements (PTAs). It presents a discussion of the evolving economic analysis regarding PTAs and the various dysfunctions that continually place them among the priority items for negotiation by the WTO.

About the Author:

Kyle W. Bagwell is the Donald L. Lucas Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Professor Bagwell was a reporter for the American Law Institute in its study Principles of International Trade: The WTO. He serves as well as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (International Trade Program). In his research, Professor Bagwell uses economic analysis to interpret and evaluate the design of the WTO. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107459354
• ISBN 13: 9781107459359
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290