This chapter surveys empirically the broad features of trade policy in goods for 31 major
economies that collectively represented 83% of the world's population and 91% of the …

More than 2000 years ago, the ancient Silk Road was a major trade link between the East
and West. However, technological change and dramatic declines in transportation costs …

A large and growing number of countries participate in multiple preferential trade
agreements (PTAs), which increasingly entail broad cooperation over policies extending far …

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MORE than an intellectual puzzle for pundits, economists, and policymakers, economic …

We provide evidence that increased political influence, arising from CIA interventions during
the Cold War, was used to create a larger foreign market for American products. Following …

Conventional wisdom is that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in
rich countries and corruption the preferred one in poor countries. Analyses of their joint …

This paper provides one of the first assessments of the hypothesis that two countries are
more likely to form a preferential trade agreement (PTA) if they are already major trading …

In order to explain the prevalence and persistence of trade protection, a large body of work
that departs from the notion of welfare maximizing governments and emphasizes instead …

We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade
and foreign direct investment against the losses incurred by state-owned enterprises due to …

In popular discussion much has been made recently of the susceptibility of government
policies to lobbying by foreigners. The general presumption has also been that such …