World trade is governed by the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the successor
to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The WTO sets rules of conduct for …

November 1996 Do the forces that regional integration arrangements set up encourage or
discourage a trend toward globally freer trade? We don't know yet. The literature on …

Consistent with the prevailing socio-political ideology of China, the Chinese government
offers financial assistance to firms, including many listed companies. Government subsidies …

This book is the culmination of over four years research into arguably the most important
recent development in the Asia-Pacific's international political economy, namely the rapid …

ABSTRACT Small Think Regionalism focused on the Vinerian question:" Would a nation
gain from joining a trade bloc?" Big Think Regionalism considers regionalism's systemic …

The effect of prohibiting state aid in an integrated market is analysed in a symmetric Cournot
oligopoly model where one firm is located in each member state. Subsidies are financed by …

The primary predictions of strategic‐trade theory are not restricted to imperfectly competitive
markets. Indeed, these predictions emerge in a natural three‐country extension of the …

A study of the nature and the policy implication of changes in the global economy in
relationship to the process of regional integration, conducted using the newest techniques of …

We describe recent work on the theory of trade agreements that speaks to the purpose and
design of GATT. Our discussion proceeds in three steps. First, we examine the purpose of a …

This paper employs the WITS-SMART simulation model to examine the welfare effects of
economic integration in the TFTA region. The results indicate that welfare gains are skewed …