How do international trade institutions shape social regulations? I develop a dynamic model of domestic regulation under international trade institutions. While international trade institutions invalidate harmful protectionist regulations, they could also indirectly increase regulation by inducing citizens to dismantle domestic institutional constraints on it. If the total effect is a reduction...

Two major topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. The service sector emits only a small part of overall pollution, and those service industries that do pollute do not trade internationally. This paper uses data on trade in services from the U.S. Bureau of Economic A...

This study analyzes the impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs) on bilateral trade, focusing Japan’s FTAs. In particular, we examined both static and dynamic effects at aggregated disaggregated levels, using two datasets between 1995 2016 for Japanese only world trade. For analysis, investigated overall effect individual Regarding considered time since their enactment. Our results indicate that...