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Free Trade Arrangement Between India and Japan: An Exploratory Analysis*

Analysis on the Relationship between Overlapping Free Trade Area and Multilateral Trade Agreement

The overlapping free trade area (FTA), as one prominent phenomenon in the development of FTA after the 1990s, has influenced the multilateral trade system (MTS) greatly. This article has proved that the special advantages of spoke countries can bring about cohesive effect on the industries through adopting the analytical method of infinitely repeated game, and the spoke countries will face a di...

Beyond Trade Creation: Free Trade Agreements and Trade Disputes

This paper investigates the effects of the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs) on trade disputes. We construct a unique and comprehensive dataset on inter-country trade disputes from 1995 to 2007. The dataset covers 110 countries and 1130 trade disputes. We find that the incidences of trade disputes between two countries are positively associated with economic size, economic growth, and t...

Farsighted free trade networks

The paper examines the strategic stability and the e¢ ciency of free trade networks. We reconsider the endogenous tari¤ model introduced by Goyal and Joshi (2006). Di¤erent from their analysis with myopic countries, we adopt a new solution concept, pairwise farsighted stable set (Herings, Mauleon and Vannetelbosch, 2009, GEB), to examine the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs) as a networ...

Free Trade at Border