Economic Notes on Insular Free Trade.

TRADE LIBERALISATION Lecture Notes

A political-economic analysis of free-trade agreements: Comment

By Xuepeng Liu Abstract: In his paper in the American Economic Review, Levy (1997) develops a political economy model of free-trade agreements (FTAs). He emphasizes that the homotheticity restriction of the production function assumed for the differentiated product is crucial for his model. This comment shows that this homotheticity assumption is unnecessary and actually problematic. It is prob...

The Gains of Economic Integration: Substantive Evidence for an Australia-Korea Free Trade Agreement

Abstract On 6 December 2006, Australia and Korea announced a joint study on a possible Australia-Korea free trade agreement (AKFTA) to promote trade and economic relations between the two countries. The paper provides empirical evidence on the possible gains and their transmission mechanism from this agreement. Significantly, it uses a new economic policy modelling approach, the endogenous grav...

Notes on Free Probability Theory

Lecture 1. Free Independence and Free Harmonic Analysis. 2 1.1. Probability spaces. 2 1.2. Non-commutative probability spaces. 3 1.3. Classical independence. 4 1.4. Free products of non-commutative probability spaces. 5 1.5. Free Fock space. 6 1.6. Free Central Limit Theorem. 8 1.7. Free Harmonic Analysis. 10 1.8. Further topics. 16 Lecture 2. Random Matrices and Free Probability. 17 2.1. Rando...

Notes on Wait-Free Spans

0. Introduction A number of key results in the theory of asynchronous, fault-tolerant computation of generalized consensus problems (known as decision tasks) are, at heart, topological. There is a developing body of research in this area that exploits the language and tools of combinatorial and algebraic topology. The seminal papers FLP, BMZ] assume an asynchronous message-passing model and req...