The Most-Favored Nation (MFN) clause has long been suspected of creating a free rider
problem in multilateral trade negotiations. To address this issue, we model multilateral …

Climate policy–though shaped by international regimes–has traditionally been heavily
domestic in practice. Accordingly, public emissions accounting frameworks have been …

This paper analyzes MFN in a “competing exporters” model of trade between three countries
with unequal endowments and shows that MFN yields higher aggregate welfare than tariff …

In common descriptions of the world trading system, MFN and national treatment embody
the principle of non-discrimination. Reciprocity is mostly regarded as a remnant of …

This paper investigates the conditions under which partial harmonization for capital taxation
is sustained in a repeated interactions model of tax competition when there are three …

This chapter reviews the literature on the enforcement and dispute settlement of
international trade agreements. It organizes the review of theoretical developments …

This paper illustrates how restricting trade instruments to non‐discrimination links trade
agreements to non‐trade agreements and, under certain conditions, helps governments …

本文設立一個三國兩廠商的模型探討外國出口廠商對進口國消費者具友善態度時最適差別關稅
政策的訂定. 本文所獲的結果顯示: 當廠商成本函數屬邊際成本為固定常數時 …

Motivated by GATT, we endogenize the formation of a club whose members have to abide
by the MFN principle of non‐discrimination. The underlying model is that of oligopolistic …

This article illustrates the importance of imperfect information in self‐enforcing trade
agreements. It shows that expected welfare is higher with current period uncertainty, and a …